Sight Lines
Soloshow at Galleri Semmingsen, Oslo. February 2025.
Sightlines explores the connection between body, landscape, and time through a tactile and intuitive language of form. The works reach geologically deep and chronologically far into the past – and perhaps also into the future. They move within the borderland between the prehistoric and the immediate, the raw and the refined. Like traces in stone or the echo of a movement, the paintings and drawings give shape to a first language – older than spoken words, yet still recognizable in the body’s memory.
Sightlines, lacquer and pastel on canvas, 200 x 130 cm, 2024
… a world where light and darkness are in constant negotiation. The works appear as traces in the landscape, as lines of movement and consciousness inscribed into the depth of time. Oil and lacquer create a sheen that catches the light differently depending on the viewer’s angle, while pastel and magnesium soften the surfaces and lend a weathered, almost sedimentary quality. The works can be read as both maps and memories – as sightlines through layers of experience and intuition.
Phantom, acrylic lacquer on aluminum, 30 x 30 cm, 2024
Phantoms explores the interplay of light and darkness through incised lines on a reflective surface. The work emerges in dialogue between the smooth, metallic character of the material and the sharp, physical interventions into its skin. The lines act both as traces and imprints – faint echoes of gestures, memories, or structures that can only be glimpsed from certain angles. Darkness contains light, and light reveals hidden contours, like an ancient script in an unknown topography.
Eclipse, acrylic lacquer on paper, 120 x 70 cm, 2024
In the Eclipse series, painting becomes a choreography of movement and stillness, an oscillation between light and dark, form and dissolution. Through stencils, gestures, and fluid layers of lacquer, a visual language emerges that both conceals and reveals – like a solar eclipse, where the hidden is only sensed at the edges. The surface bears the traces of action – swift strokes, controlled deposits, gliding transitions – as a kind of visual breath, a rhythm between appearance and disappearance.
Haptic Drawings, lacquer and pastel on paper, 145 x 210 cm, 2023
In this series, touch itself is the starting point – hands and fingers draw directly into the material, and the body’s movements leave their mark. The surfaces are folded, divided into a grid, as if attempting to frame the fleeting, while still allowing the traces to flow freely. The contrast between large, bodily gestures and the structured format creates a tension between the spontaneous and the controlled, the intuitive and the ordered.
Sightlines, lacquer and pastel on canvas, 200 x 130 cm, 2024
… a world where light and darkness are in constant negotiation. The works appear as traces in the landscape, as lines of movement and consciousness inscribed into the depth of time. Oil and lacquer create a sheen that catches the light differently depending on the viewer’s angle, while pastel and magnesium soften the surfaces and lend a weathered, almost sedimentary quality. The works can be read as both maps and memories – as sightlines through layers of experience and intuition.
