Hamphallen, Fjøsangerveien 2024
In Autumn 2024, I brought my work from the outdoor studio to Hamphallen in Fjøsangerveien, an abandoned space consisting of a 320-meter-long ropewalk as well as an additional building alongside the ropewalk, called Hamphallen. Within each room, the air moves freely. Primarily because of the lack of doors and broken windows. After a day I brought the works back to the outdoor studio, leaving them untouched until winter.
Hamphallen raises the question: how do we engage with such spaces artistically? I enter the space with certain expectations, perhaps even a set of associations. I wanted my work to be affected by this place. But is it I who gives meaning to the room, or does the abandoned space impart meaning to me? Are the works merely objects on a frame, or do they become part of the space? And after leaving it for interpretation and documentation, what do they say?
“It reveals, I suggest, something about complicity”
Image 1-2: Textile with cod liver oil and silkscreen. Mounted on self-made oak fram with tar.
Image 3-8: re-worked silkscreened textiles, cod liver oil, tar, tissue paper.
Image 9-10: Photograph from previous exhibition (2021) mounted in selfmade oakframe, reworked with tar on glass.
