Days in June

Days in June

Namsos Art Association at the Nord-Trøndelag Art Museum

The background for the exhibition was a 10-day artist residency in Namdalen in June 2023. During the opening, performance artist Lars Arstad presented a sound performance.

Documentation photos: Steinar Johansen

During the artist residency in Namsos, I systematically collected material from both a personal and a found perspective. The personal perspective involved a concrete process on site, where I drew the same mountain landscape from the same viewpoint every day. I then moved to the studio to add colors based on my interpretation and memory of the experience.

The found perspective came from browsing real estate listings on Finn.no, fascinated by how these ads from Nord-Trøndelag reflect real lives and lived stories. The interiors I selected not only possess compelling visual qualities, but also an aesthetic that feels familiar—a part of our collective memory.
In the exhibition itself, I translated two of the landscape sketches into monumental wall paintings on the gallery’s end walls, in dialogue with acrylic paintings on the adjacent walls.