"While It Lasts"

This summer I took part in Sirkulasjon, the member exhibition at Voss Kunstlag, shown in the basement of Voss Kulturhus. It ran from 20 June to 15 August.

The theme of this year’s exhibition is Circulation, exploring movement, change and interconnectedness.

Climate change is no longer something distant. Flooding, milder winters and retreating glaciers are increasingly visible in our own landscape. The exhibition asks what circulation means in our time: Are these natural processes we must accept, or consequences of human actions?

Through diverse artistic expressions, the exhibition invites reflection on climate, nature and our relationship with the world around us, leaving room for the poetic, political, personal and experimental.

I showed a new series called "While it Lasts"

Twelve paintings, each 50 by 50 cm, hung together as a grid. Beside them, one larger painting, 155 by 110 cm, breaking out of the grid. Together the installation is about 400 cm wide.

The series looks at landscape as something alive. Something that changes. Snow, ice, light. The moment while it is still here.

I don't paint what disappears. I paint the moment while it's still here.

The idea for this series started at Folgefonna summer ski center. A chairlift had fallen down. It made a big impression on me. A symbol of what happens to the things we build, when nature takes them back. The glaciers are melting because of climate change. That's why the chairlift fell. So I painted this series. Så lenge det varer.

It was a good opening. Full room, good people. Voss Cultural Centre

Here I am with Ingerid Jordal. He is a Norwegian photojournalist, documentary and fine-art photographer based in Voss. You can see her work at ingeridjordal.no.

Sirkulasjon was a member exhibition, 15 artists showed work alongside mine.

You can read more about it on Voss Kunstlag's page.

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More about my paintings https://www.sanitabalode.art/kopi-av-small-paintings

I'm also showing new work at B Open in Bergen this September, together with ZIP Collective.