Liv Tandrevold Eriksen's work is based on the drawing medium where she explores the formal and narrative possibilities of the technique. Over several years of work, she has created her own rich library of drawings and sketches. Older motifs from previous works are used in new constellations to create new contexts of images that in principle have no connection to each other. At the same time, the artist's archive is constantly adding new drawings and references. In this way, TE develops and creates new works, inspired by the illogical structure of the dream.
Tandrevold In his previous work, Eriksen has studied phenomena that are located at the the intersection between reality and a non-reality and which are difficult to explain with a reality-oriented explanatory model. One example of this of this is sleep paralysis, which is a phenomenon where you experience being awake in dream while the body is paralyzed. In the exhibition Television, now showing at TegnerforbundetLTE has taken this dualism a step further by exploring the blurred distinction between abstraction and figuration.
The exhibition title Television refers to the use the word had before the television set was established. Until the early 1950s, the word was used about "the ability to see far, to the distance" and hints here at the method where a person with paranormal abilities can gather information by looking through matter and time. The experience has been described as "my inner TV" and this description has been the starting point for the animation with the same title as the exhibition.
Liv Tandervold Eriksen (b. 1976) has a master's degree from the Department of Color at the Oslo Academy of the Arts. Among other things, she has has had separate exhibitions at Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo Kunstforening, Hå Gamle prestegård and Hordaland Kunstsenter, in addition she has participated in a number of group exhibitions.
