The exhibition shows drawings, in dialogue in the room, as series, in connection with objects, and as animation.
The dialogues play an important role in this project where Kjønsberg and Røysamb want to investigate the possibilities that lie in the meeting between their works and in meeting the space. In the exhibitions, they downplay who is responsible for the individual works, but none of the works are collaborative projects, they are independent works that are juxtaposed against each other. The stories can be changed radically in a new room by new combinations. They use this as a tool when putting together exhibitions. Kjønsberg and Røysamb have collaborated on exhibition projects since 2001.
Eli Katarina Kjønsberg (b. 1965) works with different techniques, drawing, installation/sculpture, text, photography, video depending on what best expresses the idea. In many of her works, she uses objects (ready mades) that she processes, adds something to or intervenes in. Kjønsberg wants to investigate the various objects' function, dysfunction, references and expectations as a separate language. Several of her works relate to movement, through live images such as video and animation, or more indirectly by referring to an action or a movement linked to an object or a situation.
Kjønsberg is educated at, among others, The Norwegian Academy of Fine Arts and California State University. She has previously had solo exhibitions and participated in a number of group exhibitions at home and abroad, including at the Hennie Onstad Art Centre, the Stenersen Museum, the Østland Exhibition and the Autumn Exhibition.
Mari Røysamb (b. 1964) works with drawing, photography, objects and sculpture. She is concerned with everyday and existential lightness and heaviness. Objects and photos are used as representatives of situations and conditions. This time she has focused on time, on time as a point, and as sequences. She is also concerned with the simultaneity of events, the near, and the other. Røysamb is educated at the Norwegian Academy of Fine Arts, the School of Architecture in Oslo and San Lorenzo in Florence. She has previously had solo exhibitions in e.g. The Artists' Association, Oslo Art Association and Rogaland Art Center, and has participated in the Autumn exhibition several times.
