PRESSRELEASE
Vernissage:
Saturday 12.08 at 2PM
Maren Juell Kristensen
Nothing
to see here
Video installation
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Maren
Juell Kristensen (b. 1976), with
an MA in Fine Arts from Chelsea College of Art London, is presenting her first
solo show in
Nothing to see here, is a video installation created especially for the architectural space
at Galleri Fimbul. From the covered up window panes facing the street to
the innermost “chamber”, a spatial narrative is created by utilising the
existing architecture to the full. Juell
Kristensen’s interests lie in the audience’s physical
experience of time and space and the possible expectations they carry when
entering the gallery space. The formal methods used; the rhythm in the video
pieces and the positioning of these in space, include the viewer in a
fragmented narrative that questions the relationship between fiction and
reality.
The
installation at Galleri Fimbul refers to a sentence commonly used by policemen
on TV and film: “Nothing to see here...”
–usually followed by ”move along” or ”please disperse”. It is aimed at an unwanted
audience at a crime scene but works against its intended purpose; the audience
immediately understands that there is indeed something to see. With this Maren Juell Kristensen is
investigating ambivalences in relation to the use of symbols and signs, and
plays with the material context and the absent protagonist (what happened
here?). The space of the Gallery is in this setting an important context
on its own, since this is a space one does come to do just that - see.
Inspired
by TV drama and film (amongst others Sunset
boulevard/Billy Wilder and Strangers
on a train/Alfred Hitchcock) Maren
Juell Kristensen directly refers to popular culture and mass
media in her work, our expectation for a structural narrative and dream that
exits in this realm. Rituals, myths and fiction – the friction between
reality and fiction in these stories that surrounds us becomes a space where
doubt and ambivalence reside.
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Galleri Fimbul
Rådhusgaten 28
(entrance in Nedre Slottsgate)
0151 Oslo
Tlf: +47 926 13 169