{"id":21833,"date":"2022-11-16T05:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T05:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/symbiotic-stories-by-jakob-oredsson-reviews-and-recommendations\/"},"modified":"2022-11-16T05:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T05:22:19","slug":"symbiotic-stories-by-jakob-oredsson-reviews-and-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/symbiotic-stories-by-jakob-oredsson-reviews-and-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"“Symbiotic stories” by Jakob Oredsson – Reviews and recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Jel\u00f8ya in Moss, is the venerable, classicist manor Alby. The farm forms the framework around Galleri F 15, one of Norway’s oldest and most important exhibition venues for contemporary art. In the project “Symbiotic stories: Alby Always Already”, Jakob Oredsson explores precisely this very special place. For a whole year, the Swedish artist and scenographer has wandered around inside the building, but also on narrow forest paths, across meadows and on rocky outcrops towards the sea. On his walks, he has documented and picked natural elements with him. HONORABLE: The exhibition revolves around Alby farm and the surrounding landscape. Photo: Eivind Lauritzen Chaos with a plan I like that the first thing that meets the exhibition is a kind of backstage department, where we get an insight into the process. Here we can see a giant collage of photographs showing the thousand things the artist has picked up with him on his trips. There is also a map of the walks here: Each walk is drawn as a line, and each find is marked with a dot. A large table is full of found objects such as moss and rubbish, branches and leaves. NATURE ON EXHIBITION: Swedish Jakob Oredsson has been concerned with bringing the landscape into the gallery and the gallery into the landscape at the same time. Photo: Eivind Lauritzen We are presented with a fascinating but organized chaos. A film camera is mounted in the window sill: It continuously films the sky above Alby farm. Play with light This recording of the light conditions outside is brought into each of the exhibition’s three halls on large LCD screens, and is, apart from the light from the windows, the exhibition’s only light source. In this sense, the experience changes depending on when you arrive during the day and what the weather is like outside. The visual connection between inside and outside is very central to this exhibition. The sea, the pale November light and the digitized sky image play off each other beautifully. THE LIGHT IN FOCUS: Next to the light from the large windows, the sparkling screens are the exhibition’s only lighting. Photo: Eivind Lauritzen House and nature in dialogue On the floor there are four rectangular, horizontal LCD screens consisting of shimmering light points. Here, the photographs of the thousand objects flutter by. We are unable to decipher the various motifs, we only see how the points of light change colour. On top of these glittering screens, the physical objects are placed meticulously and archivally. Here we see everything from a stump of rope and a piece of chocolate paper, to a hair tie, a withered leaf and a beautiful stone. DIGITAL AND PHYSICAL: The objects he has found along the sea form the starting point for the coarse-pixel display on the screen, but on top of the screen are the physical objects. Photo: Eivind Lauritzen On the floor and up against the wall, the artist has placed larger objects: an old fender, a dark root and the remains of a hollow tree. Each and every one of the large objects is painted in a single color in a denomination that was originally used in the interior of Alby farm. This is how Oredsson creates a conversation between the old house and the cultural landscape outside. An eternal wave If you listen carefully, you can always hear the sea at Alby, but Oredsson has also brought a single swell into the exhibition: A sound recording of a wave that perhaps initially lasted for three seconds, has been stretched out in time so that it lasts throughout the gallery’s opening hours. OLD WINDOW: Oredsson reflects not only on the landscape, but on the old building. Here he has uncovered a window that once gave a view away from the well-kept garden and towards the wild, untamed forest. Photo: Eivind Lauritzen As I listen to this seemingly eternal beat of the waves, I think that Oredsson’s project is a form of landscape painting. The symbiosis referred to in the title alludes to the interaction between architecture and nature, contemporary and history. The beauty of the project is not in what you see, but the ideas behind it. This means that the more you immerse yourself in the project, the stronger the experience you get in meeting it. An exhibition like this undoubtedly requires good communication. It is therefore such a shame that the exhibition texts are mostly written in such an inaccessible artistic language that I am unsure whether the writer himself understands his own text. I hope the public will not be put off by this, but will take the time to immerse themselves in this extremely interesting art project. news reviews Photo: Eivind Lauritzen Title: “Symbiotic stories” Artist: Jakob Oredsson Location: F 15, Jel\u00f8ya Date: 22.10.2022 – 22.01.2023
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