Underskog

Atopia is pleased to start the third season of its Vitrine project with a collaborative work by Terese Bolander, Nanna de Wilde and Kristina Stark.

.

Opening: Thursday 25.11.2010 at 18:00

(25 Nov – 9 Dec 2010)

.

“Jenny *1910 †2006” is a four screen video installation that documents the entire belongings of a deceased woman. The artists collaborating on this project purchased Jenny’s estate in an auction in 2006 and catalogued all the items. They created a photographic archive of the estate containing 4,529 images. These images are now composed in the form of a four screen video installation for Vitrine. In this public display of the estate of a woman who lived to be 96 years old the artists attempt to perform an experiment with objects and the memories that surround them. How do we relate to a person through his or her belongings? When objects are placed in such a context they gain particular histories and act as signifiers beyond their own object-hood. They instigate different fictions in the mind of every viewer. As a viewer we can not avoid creating a portrait of that person, a portrait that can only be fictional. Hence fiction and reality loose their boundaries and remind us of the idea that they are both constructions of the mind.
For more information about the project please see www.dodsbo.com.

.

Terese Bolander (1976 – Västerås, Sweden), Nanna de Wilde (1975 – Västerås, Sweden) and Kristina Stark (1978 – Borås, Sweden) studied together and received their MFAs from The Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm in 2006. They currently live and work in Stockholm, Sweden.

www.terese-bolander.net * www.nannadewilde.com * www.kristinastark.se

.

The work will be on display everyday from 14:00 to the next morning.

.

Atopia

Sannergata 32

0557 Oslo

www.atopia.no