(Montana, 2016) A group of boulders, thousands of metres above sea level, stranded between pine trees, the ground soft with needles, ready to ignite. Glacial Erratics. I squeezed my body between two of the large rocks, separate but close, the masses sat in direct relation to one another. Between them I listened, pressing my back against one and turning my cheek against the other, they held me there; in time and place. Within the gap, their charged limits, seemed frontiers of an uncertain attraction. Maybe the enormity of geology and landscape is more readily understood by body than mind anyway. Walking, smelling, feeling with your skin, absorbing sounds, only then can you start to accept geological time and the immense materials of earth.*

Artist-duo Skúladóttir & Blomgren have worked together for several years making site-specific installations. Their large-scale and sculptural work incorporates material information and impulses from the surrounding

(Montana, 2016) A group of boulders, thousands of metres above sea level, stranded between pine trees, the ground soft with needles, ready to ignite. Glacial Erratics. I squeezed my body between two of the large rocks, separate but close, the masses sat in direct relation to one another. Between them I listened, pressing my back against one and turning my cheek against the other, they held me there; in time and place. Within the gap, their charged limits, seemed frontiers of an uncertain attraction. Maybe the enormity of geology and landscape is more readily understood by body than mind anyway. Walking, smelling, feeling with your skin, absorbing sounds, only then can you start to accept geological time and the immense materials of earth.*

Artist-duo Skúladóttir & Blomgren have worked together for several years making site-specific installations. Their large-scale and sculptural work incorporates material information and impulses from the surrounding nature, local history and architectural features. In preparation for Vestlandsutstillingen 2018, they have visited Kunsthall Stavanger repeatedly to conduct local research and entered into dialogue with the location and architecture. They have specifically explored the relationship between “mineral extraction” and geological shaping in a site-specific work developed on-site.

The exhibition is curated by Randi Grov Berger and is included in the special edition of Vestlandsutstillingen 2018 (VU18), the annual traditional regional exhibition. VU18 consists of six solo exhibitions, and includes the institutions Kunsthuset Kabuso, Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum, in cooperation with Sunnfjord Kunstlag, Haugesund Billedgalleri in collaboration with Haugesund Kunstforening, Kunstmuseet KUBE, Entrée and Kunsthall Stavanger. VU18 presents the artists Ragnhild Aamås, Magnhild Øen Nordahl, Trudi Jaeger, Eivind Egeland, Karen Skog and the artist-duo Blomgren & Skuladottir.

*Excerpt from the essay 'A Co-authored Geology' by Phoebe Cummings commissioned for the exhibition, available at Kunsthall Stavanger.

The artists have been supported by Bergen Municipality, Arts Council Norway, Norske Billedkunstnere, Icelandic Visual Arts Fund and Nordic Culture Point for this exhibition.
Vestlandsutstillingen
is supported by Rogaland Fylkeskommune, Hordaland Fylkeskommune, Møre og Romsdal Fylkeskommune, and Sogn og Fjordane Fylkeskommune.

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