Underskog

In Jean-Paul Sartre’s debut novel “La Nausée”/“Nausea” the main character, Antoine Roquentin gets nauseated by the thought of being pushed into the secure and socially accepted life form. He clearly wants something more in life than to honour objective values of the bourgeoisie. Only one generation ago, sailors were the ones to break with the expectations of society and the Dream of the big blue ocean was to challenge oneself and experience something else than every day life.
Etymological speaking the English word nausea is directly linked towards seasickness as it derives from the Greek word naus meaning ship.

“NAUSEA” is an installation with drawings, sound, film and postcards. Formalisticly it looks upon how movement can be materialized in 2D, on paper. The drawing of a boat’s repetitive vertical movement on heavy seas seeks to be a score of movement. Linked to surrealist automatic writing, the drawings are produced directly from looking at videos from YouTube which shows vessels at sea in bad weather. The drawings carries the name of the videos.
The format of the postcards is more or less a nostalgic view on the traditional rites one does while traveling -you go away to exotic and new places and write home about your experiences and new knowledge.

“NAUSEA” opens May 6th, 18.00 at Galleri 21:24 in Oslo.
Opening hours are Friday May 7th -Sunday May 9th 12.00 -16.00.