Pathmakers
July 13-August 25
Vernissage Saturday 13 July at 13-16pm
Materials from different landscapes and environments have their own history – in the collection stage, in time, in the earth itself and in the life that moved over it.
exhibition Pathmakers at Krognoshuset consists of two sculpture groups. In the series Agents, on the upper level, clay taken from the salty wetland by the Wadden Sea is processed. An area of the sea where the tide flows between the mainland and islands, and alternately floods the land area or leaves the seabed open to us humans. The work revolves around theories of consciousness and origins as physical processes – what is required for meaning (life) to emerge from matter, in a landscape? Meaning can arise in the process as much as in the matter itself, and the sculptures embody the external constraints within which movement can operate. The funnel-shaped capsules act as hosts for external events, and as subsystems with dynamic relationships among themselves. The project is based on a dialogue with the biologist Christiaan Henkel, who has written a text for the exhibition.
Agents can create new movements and tracks, and the sculptures in the Irrlys series show us the way. The light phenomenon irrblos has been observed and seen wandering over the marshlands and according to old folklore, the (super)natural shimmer leads people astray in the dark. In Krognoshuset, the low-hanging blue-green glass lamps illuminate the dark basement room, which can also give us associations with the deep sea and its unknown life.
Torgersen studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Malmö (MFA 2011), and has lived and worked in Oslo since 2013. She mainly works with sculpture and installation, and in recent years has exhibited at Hå Gamle Prestegard in Jæren, the Norska Skulpturforbundet and Noplace in Oslo, Röstånga Art Center, Vermillion Sands in Copenhagen, Møre og Romsdal Art Center in Molde. In November, she has a solo exhibition at KRAFT in Bergen.
You can find more information about Gunnhild Torgersen here:
https://gunnhildtorgersen.com/
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Krognoshuset is run with support from Lund Municipality and the Culture Council