The installation Plommehagepartitur by Elida Linge and Mari Kvien Brunvoll, which is shown in Tegnerforbundet's project room 21 May - 27 June, is part of the group exhibition Seasons - Where I am which takes place in Hovedøya Kunstsal in the same period. The exhibition presents twelve artists with connections to the county of Møre og Romsdal.
Participating artists: Marit Helen Akslen, Marianne Skjong, Bent Erik Myrvoll, Ida Madsen Følling, Siv Bugge Vatne, Elida Linge, Mari Kvien Brunvoll, Gjertrud Hals, Anne Sara Loe, Ine Harrang, Brit Dyrnes and Siri Skjerve.
Curator: Helga- Marie Nordby.
When curator Helga-Marie Nordby accepted the invitation from Møre og Romsdal Art Center in November 2019, to curate an exhibition in Oslo with artists from the county of western Norway, no one had any idea what awaited us: a pandemic that has kept us in an iron grip for over a year.
The artists have been in Møre og Romsdal, the curator on Funen in Denmark. All studio visits and conversations have taken place at zoom or facetime, and outside our windows, the seasons have changed from spring, summer, autumn, winter, to spring again.
The exhibition Seasons - where I am , is an attempt to bring these conversations together, to connect people in time and space, to reflect on the nuances of shared experiences, on presence and closeness to their surroundings, on cycles, the repetitions in nature, in a human life, in history.
Seasons - where I am is supported by Møre og Romsdal County Municipality and the Norwegian Cultural Council
Opening hours Hovedøya Kunstsal: Thurs- Sun 12-17
About Plommehagepartitur
Plommehagepartitur is a series of drawings and a musical multi-channel work in several movements. The drawings, which are based on the repetitive work and the components found in one of Elida Linge's plum gardens, serve both as a recipe and as a summary, since the garden still exists and the farm work with the fruit trees is repeated year after year. The paper it is drawn on comes from previous generations on Elida's farm. The pattern on the inherited paper is repeated as the work in the garden is repeated - cutting wood, tying, fertilizing, thinning, plum varieties, watering, picking instructions, mowing and harvesting.
Mari Kvien Brunvoll's music creates space between the trees, distance and closeness. At the same time, Brunvoll seeks personality in the trees in the garden, and in the garden as a whole. She sees the garden as a chorus of streams of thought, unfinished train of thought from parallel spaces and times. Brunvoll likes to use extracts from sentences and words, they spin around, backwards and forwards in an endless search for meaning. As in many other of Brunvoll's work, she mixes her own voice with analog synths, drum machines, quotes, percussion instruments, self-built objects and instruments, as well as recordings of surroundings.
