I fold, fold, curl, tear, glue, cut and cut. I draw with pencil and marker. Geometry is fundamental to my two- and three-dimensional works. I consciously work with formal issues, while at the same time letting chance play a role. There are no final solutions. The work is largely intuitive. The works are created over time.
With this work, I want a place where it is impossible to write or talk about the work, where the work is itself. The "empty" Japanese garden is like this. Knausgård writes about Munch: "All images are wordless....They address us in ways that words cannot, and they reach places in us where words do not have access."
At a time when comments and texts so often infiltrate the work with the intention of taking it over, I insist on the image's own power. Then we can happily discuss what an image is, in the midst of the apocalypse of image streaming and commentary.
Wenche Gulbransen (b. 1947) is educated at the Norwegian School of Handicrafts and Art Industry, at the Art Academies in Vienna and Budapest, and has resided at the Norwegian Academy of Architecture in Oslo. Gulbransen has a large and rich exhibition production behind it. She was professor of drawing at SHKS for a period.
