{"id":3843,"date":"2026-04-24T08:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T06:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.torunnskjelland.com\/exhibitions-and-art-projects\/chromophilia\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:14:11","slug":"chromophilia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.torunnskjelland.com\/en\/exhibitions-and-art-projects\/chromophilia\/","title":{"rendered":"chromophilia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chromophilia<\/em>
Oslo Prosjektrom<\/a>
5th February to 28th February 2026 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Vernissage 5th February, 6.00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

The concept of chromophilia can be understood as a counter-position within Western art and taste history, where color has long been associated with the ornamental, the vernacular, and the low-valued. To work chromophilically means to take color seriously as structure, experience, and a form of knowledge\u2014challenging the idea of neutrality as a norm.<\/p>\n\n \n

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The exhibition Chromophilia brings together painting, textile, and embroidery in a shared movement. Three cloths, first painted and later continued through embroidery in collaboration with different women, function as dialogues shaped by togetherness, slowness, and conversations carried out through needlework. The cloths are inherited or found in second-hand shops and carry collective memories connected to everyday life, childhood, and family. Through this collaboration, the artist relinquishes control over the final expression, and painting shifts from an individual to a relational space. <\/p>\n

In dialogue with these works, a series of paintings on canvas explores the relationship between nature and architectural structures\u2014between human intervention, the desire for control, and nature\u2019s slow reclamation. The paintings are based on the artist\u2019s own photo archive\u2014snapshots from various places and travels\u2014selected intuitively and reworked through simplification and altered color palettes. This intensifies the atmosphere and creates displacement, opening the motifs toward a more spatial and poetic pictorial space. <\/p>\n

A wall painting activates the room and ties the works together into a whole. Across materials, places, and processes, connections emerge between the intimate and the geographically distant\u2014from Finnmark to Oslo, from Norway to Togo. <\/p>\n

Photo: Bent Ren\u00e9 Synnev\u00e5g<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3343,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3843","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torunnskjelland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torunnskjelland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torunnskjelland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.torunnskjelland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.torunnskjelland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3843"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.torunnskjelland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3882,"href":"https:\/\/www.torunnskjelland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3843\/revisions\/3882"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.torunnskjelland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torunnskjelland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}