Munan Øvrelid shows three installations in Tegnerforbundet, all about sensing through recording, in a range of techniques from mathematics to drawing, photography, sound and print. The works range from graphs and calculations to images beyond human control and perspective, from objective mathematics to unique relationships. Abstractions make complex relationships visible and thus make new understandings possible, but there is always something that eludes us in the distance between the mathematics and the object, the subject and the mathematics, the subject and the object and the object and the object. In the work "Waterfall, mountain, rock, sea, wind, Seydisfjordur, May-July 2014", Munan has allowed the forces of nature to create sound and images through three copper plates, one lowered off a cliff in the wind, one in a waterfall and the third in the sea. The vibrations in the plates are recorded with contact microphones. The movements and encounters between the sensitive metal and water, wind, rocks and mountains have formed compositions that are then printed as graphic images. In another work, flower growth figures, from seed to withered bouquet, are the starting point for expressive but systematic ink strokes carved into a wooden board. Coincidentally, a pair of birds also built a nest and laid eggs and chicks in the bed. In the installation "Birds, father and mathematics, Balbakken, October 2012 - April 2013", birds and weather were recorded over a winter by the artist's father. He is a retired mathematician who has moved to the cottage and taken up birdwatching and counting, in addition to his complex variables. Activities and life around a tree over seven months form the basis for a steel graph, a series of lively ink drawings, a photograph and graphic prints from plates from the ground under the tree. A sound work, where the number of birds and bird sounds are used as a starting point for compositions, is produced in collaboration with Marcellvs L.
