https://larsnordby.com www.larsnordby.com Sun, 12 Oct 2025 15:07:23 +0000 https://larsnordby.com en https://larsnordby.com/BG Tue, 10 May 2022 09:34:24 +0000 www.larsnordby.com https://larsnordby.com/BG https://files.cargocollective.com/c472637/lars_nordby_bulgaria_portfolio_2022.pdf https://larsnordby.com/Header Wed, 03 Jul 2019 06:28:41 +0000 www.larsnordby.com https://larsnordby.com/Header Stanchions Don’t Thresh 2025 Hulias <img width="2500" height="2000" width_o="2500" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63e06d7e01b70e723cd42ebfcbfc4a708aedee1e763592d59fb0a9dc663ccb0c/hulias_stanchions-dont-thresh_doc_lores_11.jpeg" data-mid="239293292" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/63e06d7e01b70e723cd42ebfcbfc4a708aedee1e763592d59fb0a9dc663ccb0c/hulias_stanchions-dont-thresh_doc_lores_11.jpeg" /> “Somewhere between the velvet rope and the cracked foundation, Lars Nordby sets the stage. Not a real stage, mind you—not the kind with actors and cues—but something stranger. More personal. More exposed. A skeleton of staging. A ghost rig. An emotional blueprint with too many exits. The exhibition Stanchions Don’t Thresh feels less like a show and more like the moment right before one. The good moment. A theatre emptied of performance but charged with its residue. Rope systems. Trusses. Tilted lightboxes suspended in quiet choreography. You enter the room, and it’s as if the walls are waiting to inhale. Or maybe exhale. The audience is already here, but there’s no script—only thresholds. It’s hard to say if you’ve arrived too early or too late.”&nbsp; Divi div ide&nbsp; 2024 StudyforArtPlatform <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe24ff19ccedd124d1187a921c66d7dd49ff5c67152dfaf91773bcafe674330b/DSC07612-2.jpg" data-mid="219598869" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe24ff19ccedd124d1187a921c66d7dd49ff5c67152dfaf91773bcafe674330b/DSC07612-2.jpg" /> “In his practice, Lars Nordby often draws inspiration from the condition of the theater, which he means is very similar to the gallery space, as their very existences rely on the relationship between the spectator and the spectatee, whether it be an object or a subject. This mutually dependent yet separate relationship is employed to delve into humanity’s deep-rooted obsession with identity and its desire for connection, acceptance, and belonging.“ Blue Seats 2024 Centralbanken <img width="3750" height="2500" width_o="3750" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5d0d09d9f30929e55b37e8bc02d48982231c6dd7055d1142dc4012077788c4ad/CB_LN_2-web-res.jpg" data-mid="216124548" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5d0d09d9f30929e55b37e8bc02d48982231c6dd7055d1142dc4012077788c4ad/CB_LN_2-web-res.jpg" /> “The exhibition 'Blue Seats' presents a series of works exploring the absence of conventional storytelling. A photo series mounted in pairs featuring empty audience halls in different theaters juxtaposed with silkscreen prints of their architectural floor plans. A theatre may house a show, &nbsp;but it also presents its own architectural reality. Choreographed exposition and exhibited choreography are the rendition of this kind of negotiation between visual art, exhibition spaces, and performing arts, which sets up the spectatorship dialectic between temporal and spatial dynamics. “ Locandina 2023 &nbsp;Hulias / Cantina <img width="1200" height="942" width_o="1200" height_o="942" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/50f09c3f1f32ffd990be50b8404869ef153f4e5db9a6a48e39fe3bc5f88091d2/46_AAAA_1024_hulias_mellom_hires-copy-2.jpg" data-mid="187268444" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/50f09c3f1f32ffd990be50b8404869ef153f4e5db9a6a48e39fe3bc5f88091d2/46_AAAA_1024_hulias_mellom_hires-copy-2.jpg" /> “What strikes me after experiencing this marvelous show is the shared narratives, inspirations, and visions that emerge when two cultures meet and greet again. Through the artworks on display, you will witness a fusion and a dialogue between tradition and innovation, a celebration of artistic diversity. This exhibition encapsulates the very essence of what it means to bridge the gap between mountains and the sky, where beauty knows no borders. Sooner than later. The bonds are now, once again, established.” Laugh / Applaude&nbsp; 2023 Kapana District Parking / CU29 <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0552880907eb00b09912e203fe240e0b082d8c0fc8a933fe51ca683bbf379046/DSCF3031-HDR-copy.JPG" data-mid="187268841" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0552880907eb00b09912e203fe240e0b082d8c0fc8a933fe51ca683bbf379046/DSCF3031-HDR-copy.JPG" /> “The exhibition Places of Sorrow gives us the opportunity to experience contextually different lives that offer a constantly changing and astonishing perspective. Places of Sorrow offers a multitude of states related to the process of co-experiencing someone else's mood through side corridors, and labyrinth-like curvilinear paths”.&nbsp; Restaging Parallax 2022&nbsp; ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art <img width="2048" height="1174" width_o="2048" height_o="1174" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1147178e2baee00b6394fc87dd07f7aa7b15898c620656b357474abf22881761/DSC05404.jpg" data-mid="159823375" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1147178e2baee00b6394fc87dd07f7aa7b15898c620656b357474abf22881761/DSC05404.jpg" /> “Deceptively minimalistic, Restaging Parallax is, in a way, the first retrospective of the Norwegian artist Lars Nordby. The eponymous installation on view presents three performative works produced by the artist between 2016 and 2018. They are restaged at the ICA exhibition space through various elements such as fake walls, insecticidal UV lights and the medium of theatricality itself. Using the latter to explore complex mechanisms of ideological constructs, Nordby often transforms daily objects into theatrical props in order to create situations while activating in the viewer a certain “parallax gaze”– an ability to immerse ourselves in the mind’s’ blind spots. This ability can, in turn, serve as a powerful tool for the beholder to enact (political) resistance.” Weight for Sanity 2022 BAZA Awards <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c7513dd0119ace8f81345c4dc8a50f0bf745696b02a5cd9bb5185ad8f5ce3945/IMG_0581.jpg" data-mid="152946283" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c7513dd0119ace8f81345c4dc8a50f0bf745696b02a5cd9bb5185ad8f5ce3945/IMG_0581.jpg" /> “With the mise-en-scené titled Weight for Sanity, merge digital collages with self-drawn theatre blueprints including stage weights and mimic mechanical stage ropes that initially control theatre curtains - revealing what ìs to be performed.” Sardonic, Press, Immobile 2022 Gallery Hristo Tsokev <img width="3000" height="1687" width_o="3000" height_o="1687" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1bf304df07e97dbc8636cd3c595f6ef545a3b7e4e87648bf163a12136ae3efd3/LarsNordby-Sardonic-Press-Immobile-2022-RosinaPencheva-01-1454.jpg" data-mid="145195546" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1bf304df07e97dbc8636cd3c595f6ef545a3b7e4e87648bf163a12136ae3efd3/LarsNordby-Sardonic-Press-Immobile-2022-RosinaPencheva-01-1454.jpg" /> “The current social theme in the area of art is strongly expressed in his creative work. The inequalities, divisions, and greed often provoke the author's sensitivity, who recreates them through installations, performances, and photography. Lars Nordby examines the obsessive human search for identity and ideological affiliation. A severe concept of his creative inspirations is the theatrical one and its presence in everyday life. His approach toward the idea and the material for creating the artwork and the plot is strictly conceptual, containing many reference points.” Astroturfing ad Hockery&nbsp; 2021 Gallery&nbsp;Credo Bonum <img width="2000" height="1331" width_o="2000" height_o="1331" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b8871e819f15e8fe09900f99df130196d7df8c6756284848e987499c4f5acb76/Astroturfing-ad-Hockery-by-LarsNordby-RosinaPencheva-02-5310.png" data-mid="124424995" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b8871e819f15e8fe09900f99df130196d7df8c6756284848e987499c4f5acb76/Astroturfing-ad-Hockery-by-LarsNordby-RosinaPencheva-02-5310.png" /> “The so-called performance turn in the visual arts adopts various (anti-)theatrical and dramaturgical strategies such as durational loops, flat structures, audience participation or endless lists of references and translations of one medium to the other – to allow the visitors to enter/exit the work whenever they wish and to avoid classical structures and settings. Lars Nordby somehow simultaneously continues and subverts these traditions with his latest exhibition at Credo Bonum.” White Card Wardrobe Plot 2021 Gallery Reneenee <img width="2048" height="1368" width_o="2048" height_o="1368" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/003b9f345a080f260f713443b8a0698ff161806d4ca245df35d472337fc8158e/DSC02703.jpg" data-mid="116713670" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/003b9f345a080f260f713443b8a0698ff161806d4ca245df35d472337fc8158e/DSC02703.jpg" /> “The exhibition is based on found photomicrographs of geological matter. The photographs are mounted in frames made of concrete; a complimentary choice due to its mineralogical material. Some of the frames contain white garments with UV-printed black texts. The texts, written in different languages, are excerpts from a collection of poems by Lars Nordby, inspired by Albert Camus' notion of the absurd and theatricality. The collection of poems, titled When the Stage Sets Collapse, accompanies the exhibition project, expressing photography as a medium caught up with man's ambiguous and fragmented relationship to the natural world.” Zinc White Lard 2021 Galleri Sol <img width="1920" height="1281" width_o="1920" height_o="1281" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f7cf0fd78e539327697df7b6a2c89cd52b3fc686a93e76aa5a1ab28efc0d675f/2021_SOL_Lars_Nordby-1.jpg" data-mid="112739862" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f7cf0fd78e539327697df7b6a2c89cd52b3fc686a93e76aa5a1ab28efc0d675f/2021_SOL_Lars_Nordby-1.jpg" /> “The artist Lars Nordby has recently visited a number of great theaters in Europe. With his camera he has spent the last couple of minutes before the curtain is pulled together with the actors. With these photographs, Nordby portrays the theatre as it looks from the backside.&nbsp;With his portraits of the human scenes acted out behind the stage, Nordby here highlights some of the dim solemnity lying right behind the spotlight. /&nbsp;In the exhibition space Nordby lets teleprompter-texts with good advice on how to obtain a persuasive behavior scroll before our eyes. He asks us questions about what the actors are really doing when they through layers of theatre makeup and rehearsed lines, brush their clothes, prepare their smile, and step onto the stage?” While the Plum Trees Grow&nbsp; 2021 Photobook <img width="2048" height="1318" width_o="2048" height_o="1318" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/04116ddb2c77ad934a18c4d6b6ef3d26c84d80bb73ce296c7f9df3ab873c8754/IMG_9234.jpg" data-mid="107383051" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/04116ddb2c77ad934a18c4d6b6ef3d26c84d80bb73ce296c7f9df3ab873c8754/IMG_9234.jpg" /> This book is a photographic story of three Norwegian artists in Bulgaria. We follow the everyday life of my father, Knut Nordby, my uncle, Erik Nordby, and my uncle’s partner, Karima Risk, from 2003 to 2016. The story takes place in the Veliko Turnovo region, specifically in the rural village of Vishovgrad, where they established their home and atelier. Through their lenses, we get insight into a post-communist state frozen in time, yet in vast alternation with western development. The photographs capture vernacular archite- cture, interiors, spontaneous and carefully composed moments - everything dictated by local conditions. Zinc White Lard 2020 Gallery Rafael Mihaylov <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2bc56f28d5e55d32775634b5e21a7202a71a7dbaca585cae2bcc216c67325801/01_zincwhite_nordby_rafael2020.jpg" data-mid="83561791" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2bc56f28d5e55d32775634b5e21a7202a71a7dbaca585cae2bcc216c67325801/01_zincwhite_nordby_rafael2020.jpg" /> “With these photographs Nordby portrays the theatre as it looks from the back side. Neither the accurate sentences learned by heart, the choreographed movements or the perfect lighting is in focus; the fragility behind the layers of the white makeup mixture of zinc, vermillion and grease is what has captured the attention of the artist. With his portraits of the human scenes acted out behind the stage, Nordby here highlights some of the dim solemnity lying right behind the spotlight.” Concement (Golem No More) 2022 The 25th Gabrovo Biennale / Group exhibition <img width="1171" height="1125" width_o="1171" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5910b75fc0b3a3206812bd14852eb201b32f2a50fb701039926ebd943d843f9f/Gabrovo-Biennial-2022-ContemporaryArt-RosinaPencheva-1706-copy.jpg" data-mid="152945743" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5910b75fc0b3a3206812bd14852eb201b32f2a50fb701039926ebd943d843f9f/Gabrovo-Biennial-2022-ContemporaryArt-RosinaPencheva-1706-copy.jpg" /> “For the 25th Gabrovo Biennale context, Nordby stages an art installation of cement bags - one of the most stubborn, harmful, and consumed materials of the 21st Century - parodying ways of framing material overconsumption. Two pallets of thirty-eight cement bags each are placed on the floor in the Gabrovo Museums exhibition space. Each bag has new artist-made packaging with original poetic text-work.” Dubious Chalk Circle 2019 Archeological Museum Veliko Turnovo <img width="5000" height="3380" width_o="5000" height_o="3380" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/befdef6c487729ed94a7f7bd86aa9f26396546dd13e3e4cb0126765e7079bb0d/01-4_o.jpg" data-mid="45875013" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/befdef6c487729ed94a7f7bd86aa9f26396546dd13e3e4cb0126765e7079bb0d/01-4_o.jpg" /> The sound installation is presented in the garden at the Archeological Museum in Veliko Turnovo during the European Nights of Museums. The installation is part of Nordby’s continuous exploration of identity, theatricality and his notion of the irrelational. Old Laughter and Synonyms for Actors 2018 Rafael Mihaylov <img width="5000" height="3333" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ce91ab9effb55b19bd72d77711da0ba6d2c711a10a3665f1c29e7bfe4df9452/12_oldlaughter_nordby_2018-1-of-1_o.jpg" data-mid="45981359" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9ce91ab9effb55b19bd72d77711da0ba6d2c711a10a3665f1c29e7bfe4df9452/12_oldlaughter_nordby_2018-1-of-1_o.jpg" /> “Old Laughter and Synonyms for Actors synthesises theoretical underpinnings of Nordby’s artistry to this point. Taking the notion of theatricality as his overarching theme, Nordby employs a range of strategies to investigate the intersection of identity with performance, within a visual language borrowed from the theatre.” Abstract Frontline of Identity 2018&nbsp; Hamar Kunstforening <img width="4071" height="3456" width_o="4071" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a6e8edcc5ab6d942125c37766a8e9fcdf9c212bf5263aec2407aa2a40eed1f73/02_hk_fotodokumentasjon_nordby_2018.jpg" data-mid="45981343" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a6e8edcc5ab6d942125c37766a8e9fcdf9c212bf5263aec2407aa2a40eed1f73/02_hk_fotodokumentasjon_nordby_2018.jpg" /> “The Abstract Frontline of Identity addresses the ephemeral essence of identity, which solicits its deconstruction. The character in focus is the fruit fly taken as ‘the very contemporary symbol of identity’ conveying the sense of self-realization, disappearance, loss, death, and absurdity. It is clear that in this sense the fruit fly's putative identity is not fixed but is instead taken over by the dynamics of all that it is not, by its other.” Abstract Frontline of Identity: TO TOLE 2018 Radical Gallery <img width="5000" height="3333" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf8c2fb9ded0125ca7dff097cee8302e198a8cf2aeb6909ed3c20e5f7aec6f45/IMG_5690-12_o.jpg" data-mid="45981071" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf8c2fb9ded0125ca7dff097cee8302e198a8cf2aeb6909ed3c20e5f7aec6f45/IMG_5690-12_o.jpg" /> “Nordby’s installation piece indicates an on-going potential action through the use of objects specifically designed to attract: UV-lamps for flies and glue traps for rats. The presentation of the objects evokes a sense that the missing subjects (flies and rats) are ready to enter the stage at any moment and enact their prescribed traits, as unwanted insects and rodents. In this sense the piece becomes an empty stage, continuously about to happen, to be performed on.” Overidentification 2016 Kunstnernes Hus <img width="625" height="417" width_o="625" height_o="417" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed0609199ad6845f17ef3b9ecbe74daf7861039f929848098f32457280976337/09.jpg" data-mid="45988177" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/625/i/ed0609199ad6845f17ef3b9ecbe74daf7861039f929848098f32457280976337/09.jpg" /> “In Overidentification, Nordby repurposed OSB panels that had been used to board up shattered windows on buildings that were damaged after the terrorist bombing of the government district on the 22 July 2011, in Oslo. These panels were removed from their original site and function, and used to board up windows of the façade at Kunstnernes Hus.” People Behind Gallery Wall 2016 Akademirommet, Kunstnernes Hus <img width="625" height="418" width_o="625" height_o="418" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb83e03601f71fbffad7b0b16798cef66ebb27eaf15476ee1044893ffe184027/16.jpg" data-mid="45984948" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/625/i/fb83e03601f71fbffad7b0b16798cef66ebb27eaf15476ee1044893ffe184027/16.jpg" /> Actors where hired to stand behind an additional gallery wall made by Nordby. The actors where silent, invisible, and the only information given to the visitors was the title of the exhibition. The exhibition lasted for one hour. Tango, or Echoes of Conditional Self-Assertion 2016 Kunstnernes Hus <img width="3110" height="2074" width_o="3110" height_o="2074" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e076b9eb810fd032495b4f3e85adb69c4e4c10e39849960c17e0e3d165cdb13/tango.JPG" data-mid="46073129" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e076b9eb810fd032495b4f3e85adb69c4e4c10e39849960c17e0e3d165cdb13/tango.JPG" /> The performance is developed in a collaboration between contemporary dancer Ida Haugen and Lars Nordby. The installation consists of a platform that is connected to contact-microphones. Contact-microphones are diverted to an output component that makes the movement the dancer is doing on the platform are delayed. The delayed sounds are then the conditions for the dancers next movements. Thus the dancer relates to the consequences of her own activity. To Tole 2015 Old Butchery Complex, Poznan Biennale <img width="701" height="467" width_o="701" height_o="467" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9ad6e7b68d8285333ce1733427f23301e9ab923b0d6f0a5e871ddd653e8d4ca/02.jpg" data-mid="46019482" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/701/i/c9ad6e7b68d8285333ce1733427f23301e9ab923b0d6f0a5e871ddd653e8d4ca/02.jpg" /> During the Fine Art European Forum / Poznań Conference Biennale, Nordby exhibited at the Old Butchery Complex, inviting fruit flies to fill the exhibition space. Study of Grid and Motion 2015 Hyde Park Art Center <img width="1174" height="713" width_o="1174" height_o="713" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ba7de1480b8f03fb94bc5d643a686bcb89b6f16ed9449543e7cc6075ff60686/05.jpg" data-mid="46022919" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7ba7de1480b8f03fb94bc5d643a686bcb89b6f16ed9449543e7cc6075ff60686/05.jpg" /> Hallways in the City Hall in Chicago is filmed towards each of the four main entrances of the building. In the video, we see people walking in a grid-based architecture, reminiscent of the urban planning of cities in America with infinite structures. Highway Furnitures 2014 ONO- One Night Only, Kunstnernes Hus <img width="701" height="467" width_o="701" height_o="467" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/30414162a1e8a7a04951fe29b57bf5ee2c7eba66902666ccb36202541240b26b/10.jpg" data-mid="46022075" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/701/i/30414162a1e8a7a04951fe29b57bf5ee2c7eba66902666ccb36202541240b26b/10.jpg" /> Highway Furnitures is a photo series, containing 160 photos, taken along a Bulgarian highway. Each image shows a billboard stand mounted along the highway, without advertising looking out towards the Bulgarian countryside. Work in Translation 2013 Skoki Palace <img width="1000" height="747" width_o="1000" height_o="747" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95d355dc93882df08973ed82b023fc0f734b653d4dcf2a6816412ad6947f9dc5/IMG_1341.jpg" data-mid="45993647" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/95d355dc93882df08973ed82b023fc0f734b653d4dcf2a6816412ad6947f9dc5/IMG_1341.jpg" /> A sign with the title Work in Translation was placed on a pile of soil outside the Skoki Palace. During seven days the household workers at the palace spread the soil into different parts of the garden until the pile was gone. Lars Nordby&nbsp; www.larsnordby.com post@larsnordby.com https://larsnordby.com/Divi-div-ide Fri, 11 Oct 2024 14:09:18 +0000 www.larsnordby.com https://larsnordby.com/Divi-div-ide <img width="4284" height="5712" width_o="4284" height_o="5712" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d5e06163e020fad4f5528b2142410336ee58a195cfa93a5204d3378f134fa149/IMG_0218.jpeg" data-mid="222352884" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d5e06163e020fad4f5528b2142410336ee58a195cfa93a5204d3378f134fa149/IMG_0218.jpeg" /><img width="1365" height="2048" width_o="1365" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d9badffe21ba2353b13e0e5de8b6a4f3587bd9cd8716401a407cb4aca9c3c11/DSC07569.jpg" data-mid="219598504" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7d9badffe21ba2353b13e0e5de8b6a4f3587bd9cd8716401a407cb4aca9c3c11/DSC07569.jpg" />Divi div ide, 2024Installation view of silkscreen prints with Sebastar L751 luminescent paint that glows in interaction with an art installation of UV-lit insect-killing lamps. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9fdb1a76da8ba3b7e70c2a3e321c063e9a6bfeb1c7cffd03e4debf8cf7062d8/IMG_0182.JPG" data-mid="222352873" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d9fdb1a76da8ba3b7e70c2a3e321c063e9a6bfeb1c7cffd03e4debf8cf7062d8/IMG_0182.JPG" />Divi div ide, 2024Installation view of silkscreen prints with Sebastar L751 luminescent paint that glows in interaction with an art installation of UV-lit insect-killing lamps. <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b1218ebce6220c855351fcdc70266fa0dc0204e098d83a36b1be892303defe63/DSC07612-2.jpg" data-mid="219598482" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b1218ebce6220c855351fcdc70266fa0dc0204e098d83a36b1be892303defe63/DSC07612-2.jpg" /> Divi div ide, 2024 Installation view of silkscreen prints with Sebastar L751 luminescent paint that glows in interaction with an art installation of UV-lit insect-killing lamps. <img width="1365" height="2048" width_o="1365" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/18bb952a5615fbf50a73fddd48472d94ec7464429131940d2893fd8c484fd509/DSC07560-2.jpg" data-mid="219598514" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/18bb952a5615fbf50a73fddd48472d94ec7464429131940d2893fd8c484fd509/DSC07560-2.jpg" /> Divi div ide, 2024 Installation view of silkscreen prints with Sebastar L751 luminescent paint that glows in interaction with an art installation of UV-lit insect-killing lamps. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4bcef952597040ccdf8d0028f726c14bb47d18f9ade170820056e6cb58b97544/IMG_0204.jpeg" data-mid="222352894" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4bcef952597040ccdf8d0028f726c14bb47d18f9ade170820056e6cb58b97544/IMG_0204.jpeg" />Divi div ide, 2024Installation view of silkscreen prints with Sebastar L751 luminescent paint that glows in interaction with an art installation of UV-lit insect-killing lamps. <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5d1604aa440e636a6cf984351b54ca3390fbac68c733a1cd04a39b48e3a4438d/DSC07562.jpg" data-mid="219598543" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5d1604aa440e636a6cf984351b54ca3390fbac68c733a1cd04a39b48e3a4438d/DSC07562.jpg" /> Divi div ide, 2024Installation view of silkscreen prints with Sebastar L751 luminescent paint that glows in interaction with an art installation of UV-lit insect-killing lamps. <img width="1200" height="1680" width_o="1200" height_o="1680" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f48865796c1f2c414943e6ca410f528584688d1bb0f9303e3c0be604d31fa697/05_varna_blueseats_nordby_2024-copy.jpg" data-mid="219598787" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f48865796c1f2c414943e6ca410f528584688d1bb0f9303e3c0be604d31fa697/05_varna_blueseats_nordby_2024-copy.jpg" />Divi div ide, 2024Silkscreen prints of digitally interpreted blueprints from various theaters. The prints are made on blue paper with Sebastar L751 luminescent paint, which only glows under UV light. <img width="1200" height="1680" width_o="1200" height_o="1680" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/83c4a9928c07f8351a8a8fc81315a964adae92a88417277881bc6687a12f31fd/004_blueseats_nordby_2024-copy.jpg" data-mid="219598763" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/83c4a9928c07f8351a8a8fc81315a964adae92a88417277881bc6687a12f31fd/004_blueseats_nordby_2024-copy.jpg" />Divi div ide, 2024Silkscreen prints of digitally interpreted blueprints from various theaters. The prints are made on blue paper with Sebastar L751 luminescent paint, which only glows under UV light. <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/78087bfcd3c32059f58bbe672a24cbe11d73b34064d2e9d25711a3aaf7c1df0d/DSC07576-2.jpg" data-mid="219598550" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/78087bfcd3c32059f58bbe672a24cbe11d73b34064d2e9d25711a3aaf7c1df0d/DSC07576-2.jpg" /> Divi div ide, 2024Installation view of silkscreen prints with Sebastar L751 luminescent paint that glows in interaction with an art installation of UV-lit insect-killing lamps. <img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f352927af89e179539ecfff8376ee35542c7206890e6108080945a172f36617/DSC07587-Edit.jpg" data-mid="219598574" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f352927af89e179539ecfff8376ee35542c7206890e6108080945a172f36617/DSC07587-Edit.jpg" />Divi div ide, 2024Installation view of silkscreen prints with Sebastar L751 luminescent paint that glows in interaction with an art installation of UV-lit insect-killing lamps.<img width="1200" height="1680" width_o="1200" height_o="1680" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7af9bf4a4fd06620d2756ef7c3691c7f618c994af50346a05e5f2061bdc00b65/002_blueseats_nordby_2024-copy.jpg" data-mid="219598645" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7af9bf4a4fd06620d2756ef7c3691c7f618c994af50346a05e5f2061bdc00b65/002_blueseats_nordby_2024-copy.jpg" /> Divi div ide, 2024Silkscreen prints of digitally interpreted blueprints from various theaters. The prints are made on blue paper with Sebastar L751 luminescent paint, which only glows under UV light. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d6fadd8c0c3a0fcdfada87077e61193a213c1566daac83d5beae894479ae92bc/IMG_0184.jpeg" data-mid="222352899" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d6fadd8c0c3a0fcdfada87077e61193a213c1566daac83d5beae894479ae92bc/IMG_0184.jpeg" />Divi div ide, 2024Installation view of silkscreen prints with Sebastar L751 luminescent paint that glows in interaction with an art installation of UV-lit insect-killing lamps. <img width="4284" height="5712" width_o="4284" height_o="5712" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66509538162e3af8281f05c69f9d9e92be5f4e389d9badb5644aa0a87c376899/IMG_0190.jpeg" data-mid="222352902" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66509538162e3af8281f05c69f9d9e92be5f4e389d9badb5644aa0a87c376899/IMG_0190.jpeg" />Divi div ide, 2024Installation view of silkscreen prints with Sebastar L751 luminescent paint that glows in interaction with an art installation of UV-lit insect-killing lamps. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2af59353196b09de2aced6a31d36e18dce85bcb8bfa0521bc84d3488710a95af/IMG_0198.jpeg" data-mid="222352903" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2af59353196b09de2aced6a31d36e18dce85bcb8bfa0521bc84d3488710a95af/IMG_0198.jpeg" />Divi div ide, 2024Installation view of silkscreen prints with Sebastar L751 luminescent paint that glows in interaction with an art installation of UV-lit insect-killing lamps. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d21b799858d2f0e11afbf93604084a5ed4ce519df825faaa6534568138f48ccc/IMG_0202.jpeg" data-mid="222352904" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d21b799858d2f0e11afbf93604084a5ed4ce519df825faaa6534568138f48ccc/IMG_0202.jpeg" />Divi div ide, 2024Installation view of silkscreen prints with Sebastar L751 luminescent paint that glows in interaction with an art installation of UV-lit insect-killing lamps. Divi div ide04.10 - 26.10.2024StudyforArtPlatform Stockholm, Sweden Instagram In his practice, Lars Nordby often draws inspiration from the condition of the theater, which he means is very similar to the gallery space, as their very existences rely on the relationship between the spectator and the spectacle, whether it be an object or a subject. This mutually dependent yet separate relationship is employed to delve into humanity’s deep-rooted obsession with identity and its desire for connection, acceptance, and belonging.The exhibition ”Divi div ide” further explores two previous exhibitions combined: ”Restaging Parallax” (ICA—Institute of Contemporary Art in Sofia, 2022) and ”Blue Seats” (Centralbanken in Oslo, 2024). In the exhibition, five silkscreen prints, reminiscent of blueprints of theatre halls, are mounted on the walls. The prints are done with luminescent paint, which is activated by an insect-killing UV light. The metaphor of the insect-killing UV light serves as a reflection on the seductive and potentially destructive forces that shape us as individuals and as societies, particularly in relation to how we engage with narratives, ideologies, and the allure of certain truths. The theatre, like the gallery space, reminds us of the situation in which the spectators often find themselves — how we passively consume information, narratives, and rhetoric that shape our reality, often without realizing the consequences. The exhibition is supported by OCA - Office of Contemporary Art Norway.&nbsp; Photo documentation:&nbsp;courtesy of the artist and StudyforArtPlatform Many thanks to Benjamin Savi. https://larsnordby.com/Stanchions-Don-t-Thresh Sun, 12 Oct 2025 15:07:23 +0000 www.larsnordby.com https://larsnordby.com/Stanchions-Don-t-Thresh <img width="2500" height="2000" width_o="2500" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed28f2385560dbbb4f367da9b1847248ec92ec0904f5e83572c503c26ea31eb5/hulias_stanchions-dont-thresh_doc_lores_1.jpeg" data-mid="239324277" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed28f2385560dbbb4f367da9b1847248ec92ec0904f5e83572c503c26ea31eb5/hulias_stanchions-dont-thresh_doc_lores_1.jpeg" /> Stanchions Don’t Thresh, 2025 Theatre rope and photographs (inkjet on canvas) on stage elements Dimensions variable <img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" 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width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/52096d1081dba0983f2496b6297ccc18a58e6af789bf7fa805cf078e212712b2/hulias_stanchions-dont-thresh_doc_lores_25.jpeg" data-mid="239324304" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/52096d1081dba0983f2496b6297ccc18a58e6af789bf7fa805cf078e212712b2/hulias_stanchions-dont-thresh_doc_lores_25.jpeg" /> Stanchions Don’t Thresh&nbsp;03.10 - 26.10.2025Hulias Oslo, Norwaywww.hulias.info / @hulias.info Somewhere between the velvet rope and the cracked foundation, Lars Nordby sets the stage. Not a real stage, mind you—not the kind with actors and cues—but something stranger. More personal. More exposed. A skeleton of staging. A ghost rig. An emotional blueprint with too many exits. The exhibition Stanchions Don’t Thresh feels less like a show and more like the moment right before one. The good moment. A theatre emptied of performance but charged with its residue. Rope systems. Trusses. Tilted lightboxes suspended in quiet choreography. You enter the room, and it’s as if the walls are waiting to inhale. Or maybe exhale. The audience is already here, but there’s no script—only thresholds. It’s hard to say if you’ve arrived too early or too late. Nordby’s theatre is one of exposure: mechanical, psychological, social. He brings the backstage into the gallery space not to dramatize, but to diagram. And yet, the drama leaks in anyway. Or is it projection? Who’s projecting whom here? Cables hold the lightboxes in tension—each an image of a theatre stage under shifting illumination. Are these different theatres, or the same one photographed over time? I’m told they form a loop. I’m told there’s no clear beginning or end. But that’s the kind of thing I would tell myself, isn’t it? There’s a doorman at the threshold. Velvet stanchions stand like punctuation marks around the perimeter. These are symbols of belonging, but also of exclusion. Their presence flirts with ritual, choreography, control. They don’t thresh—but they separate. They don’t enforce, but they imply. Inside, everything appears balanced. But only barely. As if someone backstage has walked off mid-cue. The Irrelational, Nordby calls it—a kind of anti-relation that still binds, insistently, uneasily. Not the absence of relation, but its doubling-back. Its static. Its grip. A closeness that estranges. As if every touch carried within it the ghost of retreat. I write this down. I underline it. I wonder if I’ve written it before. Perhaps I have. Some sculptures lean. Others resist. The whole thing teeters, deliberately. A machine made of metaphors—but also of hardware, plaster, and rope. Theatricality here is not decoration, not illusion. It is ontology. It is a way of revealing how much of our architecture—social, emotional, spatial—is held together by scaffolds we’re not supposed to see. So Lars shows them. And by doing so, he puts us in them. Somewhere in the gallery, someone whispers that Igory Mansotti is just a name. A placeholder. A role to be filled. Maybe so. Maybe I’m part of the set. Maybe I was built into it all along. Like a mirror angled slightly too far from the wall, I catch a glimpse of myself in the distance. And then I look away. - Igory Mansotti Photo Credits: Print/Web: Hulias/Jørn Aagaard @hulias.info/@jornaagaard Special thanks to Oslo Nye (Thomas Kvitvik) and Hans Petter Røste Olsen https://larsnordby.com/Blue-Seats Sat, 10 Aug 2024 14:27:05 +0000 www.larsnordby.com https://larsnordby.com/Blue-Seats <img width="3750" height="2500" width_o="3750" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e10943afa65553648a962611f33f6600adcbb2de6d9b6f19507dd762aafd227/CB_LN_2-web-res.jpg" data-mid="216128497" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e10943afa65553648a962611f33f6600adcbb2de6d9b6f19507dd762aafd227/CB_LN_2-web-res.jpg" /> Blue Seats, 2024 Installation view <img width="3751" height="2500" width_o="3751" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5947467efa167fe0b3ac394e32497d6d49878ec97d1c9f1825cde6584aa86f00/CB_LN_1-web-res.jpg" data-mid="216280533" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5947467efa167fe0b3ac394e32497d6d49878ec97d1c9f1825cde6584aa86f00/CB_LN_1-web-res.jpg" /> Blue Seats #1, 2024 Photography (70x120cm), museum lighting lamp, and silkscreen print with Sebastar L751 Lumineszenz paint (70x50cm)<img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e3599a646c238ce20e14a28196f98c43e9f18d8a8d562fed9d7e442648531b39/CB_LN_6-web-res.jpg" data-mid="216280745" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e3599a646c238ce20e14a28196f98c43e9f18d8a8d562fed9d7e442648531b39/CB_LN_6-web-res.jpg" />Blue Seats #4, 2024Detail of museum lighting lamp and silkscreen print with Sebastar L751 Lumineszenz paint (70x50cm) <img width="3750" height="2500" width_o="3750" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/735d8812e15a6268bfc16caef5f47f2eb39a0f2abcf83bd62b7297d93749d125/CB_LN_4-web-res.jpg" data-mid="216280752" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/735d8812e15a6268bfc16caef5f47f2eb39a0f2abcf83bd62b7297d93749d125/CB_LN_4-web-res.jpg" />Blue Seats, 2024Installation view <img width="7650" height="5100" width_o="7650" height_o="5100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a942074a08aaff9f5d78737e87499de0eb588ee39247a26d753bb8dd8d693405/CB_LN_3-high-res.jpg" data-mid="216129023" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a942074a08aaff9f5d78737e87499de0eb588ee39247a26d753bb8dd8d693405/CB_LN_3-high-res.jpg" />Blue Seats, 2024Installation view <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b4b27b5e5d005f6cfd11566930a50a7aa92cfdeb42b1d23f84395a5e3dbfc45f/CB_LN_5-web-res.jpg" data-mid="216280739" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b4b27b5e5d005f6cfd11566930a50a7aa92cfdeb42b1d23f84395a5e3dbfc45f/CB_LN_5-web-res.jpg" />Blue Seats #5, 2024 Detail of&nbsp;museum lighting lamp and silkscreen print with Sebastar L751 Lumineszenz paint (70x50cm) Blue Seats19.08 - 10.09.2024 CentralbankenOslo, Norway www.instagram.com/centralbanken/ The exhibition 'Blue Seats' presents a series of works exploring the absence of conventional storytelling. A photo series mounted in pairs featuring empty audience halls in different theaters juxtaposed with silkscreen prints of their architectural floor plans. A theatre may house a show, &nbsp;but it also presents its own architectural reality. Choreographed exposition and exhibited choreography are the rendition of this kind of negotiation between visual art, exhibition spaces, and performing arts, which sets up the spectatorship dialectic between temporal and spatial dynamics. Within a migration process, from the black box to the white cube, the theatrical body becomes a work of art, through a process of objectivation. Likewise, spectators participation is choreographed, as well as the very act of observation. The exhibition space loses its structural and statutory hierarchies, becoming a hybrid place, a meta-theatre and simultaneously a meta-museum. Points of view change; the frontal perspective of the theatrical or cinematographic architectures, and the Renaissance monocular gaze disappear. That is a contemporary dynamic of creolization for which, within an exhibition context, the spectator’s enjoyment meets with a theatrical approach, becoming a critical device of transcultural mediation. The exhibition is supported by Norske Billedkunstnere. Many thanks to Arild Tveito, Benjamin Savi, and Marie Kraft.&nbsp; Photo Credits: Lea Stuedahl https://larsnordby.com/Locandina Tue, 04 May 2021 14:32:55 +0000 www.larsnordby.com https://larsnordby.com/Locandina <img width="1200" height="1500" width_o="1200" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0d446b6d03fd7f2032d4100e65165295700919d956190fc6a2f3bd21ab5c2752/47_AAAA_1025_hulias_mellom_hires-copy.jpg" data-mid="187275561" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0d446b6d03fd7f2032d4100e65165295700919d956190fc6a2f3bd21ab5c2752/47_AAAA_1025_hulias_mellom_hires-copy.jpg" /> Locandina, 2023Playbills, metal20×14cm (Unique) <img width="1200" height="960" width_o="1200" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d685006e029d338eef66048e49e0d0bc20ea1aae670004b42f8b86dd1aaa03b/01_AAAA_0954_hulias_mellom_hires-copy.jpg" data-mid="187269828" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8d685006e029d338eef66048e49e0d0bc20ea1aae670004b42f8b86dd1aaa03b/01_AAAA_0954_hulias_mellom_hires-copy.jpg" /> Installation view Mellom fjellene og himmelen / Tra le montagne e il cielo, 2023 <img width="1200" height="960" width_o="1200" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/57f999fbee9e4a02a7a84b4c8c25f111a045ac848accf3a6758a48a6a0445c7b/02_AAAA_0956_hulias_mellom_hires-copy.jpg" data-mid="187275008" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/57f999fbee9e4a02a7a84b4c8c25f111a045ac848accf3a6758a48a6a0445c7b/02_AAAA_0956_hulias_mellom_hires-copy.jpg" /> Installation view Mellom fjellene og himmelen / Tra le montagne e il cielo, 2023 <img width="1200" height="1500" width_o="1200" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eee4714a622e78ab984c7956d5a0f554429fb7ecd8d856aa670613f2dbe68b87/62_AAAA_1044_hulias_mellom_hires-copy.jpg" data-mid="187275018" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eee4714a622e78ab984c7956d5a0f554429fb7ecd8d856aa670613f2dbe68b87/62_AAAA_1044_hulias_mellom_hires-copy.jpg" /> Installation view Mellom fjellene og himmelen / Tra le montagne e il cielo, 2023 <img width="1200" height="1500" width_o="1200" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be1fe63314d5df960f45875e3ad308734196238076ce191129742afa8ca3f146/43_AAAA_1021_hulias_mellom_hires-copy.jpg" data-mid="187275045" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be1fe63314d5df960f45875e3ad308734196238076ce191129742afa8ca3f146/43_AAAA_1021_hulias_mellom_hires-copy.jpg" /> Locandina, 2023 Playbills, metal20×14cm (Unique) <img width="1200" height="1500" width_o="1200" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4932e3970d1c117767edef74e3d5bc731fba57fc2dface2120ae432b8914f2f7/45_AAAA_1023_hulias_mellom_hires-copy.jpg" data-mid="187275418" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4932e3970d1c117767edef74e3d5bc731fba57fc2dface2120ae432b8914f2f7/45_AAAA_1023_hulias_mellom_hires-copy.jpg" /> Locandina, 2023Playbills, metal 20×14cm (Unique) &nbsp; <img width="1200" height="942" width_o="1200" height_o="942" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4930ee331d80ee258a51951809cf41325b3d694479043e5edd3ee0b1aebf141c/46_AAAA_1024_hulias_mellom_hires-copy-2.jpg" data-mid="187275465" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4930ee331d80ee258a51951809cf41325b3d694479043e5edd3ee0b1aebf141c/46_AAAA_1024_hulias_mellom_hires-copy-2.jpg" /> Locandina, 2023Playbills, metal20×14cm (Unique) <img width="1200" height="1500" width_o="1200" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c64e4bd4253a8ace8008ef4f12064e66d33be96b11823b25a2714079f539b297/48_AAAA_1026_hulias_mellom_hires-copy.jpg" data-mid="187275595" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c64e4bd4253a8ace8008ef4f12064e66d33be96b11823b25a2714079f539b297/48_AAAA_1026_hulias_mellom_hires-copy.jpg" /> Locandina, 2023Playbills, metal20×14cm (Unique) <img width="1200" height="1500" width_o="1200" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de3b1823d74afd60942e546e87954ca96ba86d15a138aeddbe2c5a3be5642df9/62_AAAA_1044_hulias_mellom_hires-copy.jpg" data-mid="187275657" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de3b1823d74afd60942e546e87954ca96ba86d15a138aeddbe2c5a3be5642df9/62_AAAA_1044_hulias_mellom_hires-copy.jpg" /> Installation view Mellom fjellene og himmelen / Tra le montagne e il cielo, 2023 BACK TO TOP Locandina01.07.23—05.08.23 Hulias / CantinaCivita d’Antino, Italy www.hulias.info As I descend into the cantina, the first thing that hits me is the architectural similarities shared between this space and the Oslo space. “Mellom fjellene og himmelen / Tra le montagne e il cielo,” is for sure an exhibi- tion that transcends the boundaries of time and space, immersing you in the essence of two distinct, yet beautifully intertwined cultures. Oh my lord. Prepare yourselves to be captivated as the exhibition transports you through the corridors of history, connecting the landscapes of Abruzzo and Scandinavia in a harmonious union. The cantina, trans- formed into a sacred sanctuary of artistic expression, serves as the conduit for this transformative experience. Here, the ech- oes of the past intertwine with the contem- porary, forging a profound connection that resonates within every brushstroke, sculp- ture, and installation. What strikes me after experiencing this marvelous show is the shared narratives, inspirations, and visions that emerge when two cultures meet and greet again. Through the artworks on display, you will witness a fusion and a dialogue between tradition and innovation, a celebration of artistic diversity. This exhibition encapsulates the very essence of what it means to bridge the gap between mountains and the sky, where beauty knows no borders. Sooner than later. The bonds are now, once again, established. - Igory Mansotti The group exhibition include the following artists: ADA NILSEN (NO); KRISTIAN ENGELSEN (NO); AKSEL REE (NO); HEDDA HØRRAN (NO); MARTHIN ESPELAND (NO); LARS NORDBY (NO); KAARE RUUD (NO); MIA VAN VEEN (NO); KRISTOFFER ZEINER (NO); ISAK WISLØFF (NO); JØRN AAGAARD; (NO) ØYVIND BAST (NO). Photo Credits: Jørn Aagaard Scandinavian artists first worked in Civita d’Antino from about 1890 to 1915. This under-communicated part of Norwe- gian art history will be revitalized with the restoration of Palazzo Ferrante and the activities initiated by Hulias. Through the establishment of Hulias Cantina, the palace and the village will again be an important destination for young Norwe- gian artists, students, and art historians, displaying works of the Scandinavian artists working in Civita d’Antino. https://larsnordby.com/laugh Thu, 04 May 2023 18:34:37 +0000 www.larsnordby.com https://larsnordby.com/laugh <img width="6206" height="4137" width_o="6206" height_o="4137" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0ef8d2ea388925dae80684ab8fd41a176a400ab8dd2b73886bea1ccc5ae0f7d8/DSCF3008-HDR.JPG" data-mid="177687921" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0ef8d2ea388925dae80684ab8fd41a176a400ab8dd2b73886bea1ccc5ae0f7d8/DSCF3008-HDR.JPG" /> Laugh, 2023 80x10x45cm interval automated light-box <img width="6211" height="4141" width_o="6211" height_o="4141" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e3d4e26c0328250b75955975048bb461a07dfe765e96917156851d83c4b94f36/DSCF3031-HDR.JPG" data-mid="177690466" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e3d4e26c0328250b75955975048bb461a07dfe765e96917156851d83c4b94f36/DSCF3031-HDR.JPG" /> Laugh, 202380x10x45cm interval automated light-box <img width="6212" height="4141" width_o="6212" height_o="4141" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d2bdbcc094f799a3ce84e3aa14490aad9bbb295fd6c0d5ce942c09bb3280ba44/DSCF3059-HDR.JPG" data-mid="177690474" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d2bdbcc094f799a3ce84e3aa14490aad9bbb295fd6c0d5ce942c09bb3280ba44/DSCF3059-HDR.JPG" /> Applause, 202380x10x45cm interval automated light-box <img width="6210" height="4140" width_o="6210" height_o="4140" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/afaae9869bc3d6020202e09f5a789d3d921cf614845a570a64d4d0f8c9ad7a9d/DSCF3050-HDR.JPG" data-mid="177690491" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/afaae9869bc3d6020202e09f5a789d3d921cf614845a570a64d4d0f8c9ad7a9d/DSCF3050-HDR.JPG" /> Applause, 202380x10x45cm interval automated light-box <img width="6240" height="4160" width_o="6240" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fbedf48074463f1808ee12c858fb2ead5466178da8cd866283846f1ab1d9535f/DSCF2801.JPG" data-mid="177690820" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fbedf48074463f1808ee12c858fb2ead5466178da8cd866283846f1ab1d9535f/DSCF2801.JPG" /> Come tole with me, 2023Dimensions variable / Recontextualized art installation done at ICA in Sofia (2022), originally titled Restaging Parallax. <img width="6240" height="4160" width_o="6240" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/51916aca83c6a4e230167a6bd1099f789762762e4a99fc8da4a0b89c71d94b51/DSCF2807.JPG" data-mid="177690840" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/51916aca83c6a4e230167a6bd1099f789762762e4a99fc8da4a0b89c71d94b51/DSCF2807.JPG" /> Come tole with me, 2023Dimensions variable / Recontextualized art installation done at ICA in Sofia (2022), originally titled Restaging Parallax. <img width="6240" height="4160" width_o="6240" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c5a3c9a2a64742899eb001ab005e099ab921bfd1f0bceea59a7476a37c97669d/DSCF2803.JPG" data-mid="177690509" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c5a3c9a2a64742899eb001ab005e099ab921bfd1f0bceea59a7476a37c97669d/DSCF2803.JPG" /> Come tole with me, 2023 Dimensions variable / Recontextualized art installation done at ICA in Sofia (2022), originally titled Restaging Parallax. BACK TO TOP Places of Sorrow29.04.2023 Kapana District Parking / CU29 Gallery&nbsp; Plovdiv, Bulgaria&nbsp;- curated by&nbsp;Domenico de Chirico and Velizar Dimchev Artists in the group exhibition: Artists: Stanimir Genov, Valio Chenkov, Lars Nordby, Aaron Roth, Mitch Brezounek, Anton Stoianov, Marina Genova, HR-Stamenov, Martina Vacheva. "Inspired by the mythological novel The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov, considered to be the most prominent representative of post-modernism and the experimental Bulgarian literature, this collective exhibition with an Odyssean touch relies on labyrinthine empathetic processes and aims at experiencing someone else’s stories while reaching back into the past, studying the present, and approaching the future, all at the same time. Its aspiration is to succeed in delineating the sublime, the restless and the fragile, found floating in essence between joys and sorrows, and leaving the time-space coordinates that define each of these periods. Having said that, the exhibition Places of Sorrow gives us the opportunity to experience contextually different lives that offer a constantly changing and astonishing perspective. Places of Sorrow offers a multitude of states related to the process of co-experiencing someone else's mood through side corridors, and labyrinth-like curvilinear paths, because as Gospodinov says, “no labyrinth and no story is ever linear”.- Domenico de Chirico. Photo documentation by Mihail Novakov.&nbsp; https://larsnordby.com/Restaging-Parallax Mon, 10 Oct 2022 17:52:59 +0000 www.larsnordby.com https://larsnordby.com/Restaging-Parallax <img width="2048" height="1174" width_o="2048" height_o="1174" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1147178e2baee00b6394fc87dd07f7aa7b15898c620656b357474abf22881761/DSC05404.jpg" data-mid="159745909" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1147178e2baee00b6394fc87dd07f7aa7b15898c620656b357474abf22881761/DSC05404.jpg" /> Restaging Parallax, 2022 Installation view of thirty electronic UV-lit insecticidal lamps splitting the exhibitions pace in half / dimensions variable <img width="2048" height="1450" width_o="2048" height_o="1450" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1d9b84bee5ee91aa40eeaa20e1a26adbcbf266f8ce37a02b11e0fcf5264c2216/DSC05418.jpg" data-mid="159746637" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1d9b84bee5ee91aa40eeaa20e1a26adbcbf266f8ce37a02b11e0fcf5264c2216/DSC05418.jpg" /> Restaging Parallax, 2022Installation view of thirty electronic UV-lit insecticidal lamps splitting the exhibitions pace in half / dimensions variable <img width="2048" height="1117" width_o="2048" height_o="1117" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e2d765b0d735ac5f57d205ca0a72e3e24f720d257b829e85a93a207493937827/DSC04379.jpg" data-mid="159822901" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e2d765b0d735ac5f57d205ca0a72e3e24f720d257b829e85a93a207493937827/DSC04379.jpg" /> Restaging Parallax, 2022Installation view of thirty electronic UV-lit insecticidal lamps splitting the exhibitions pace in half / dimensions variable <img width="1366" height="2048" width_o="1366" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f8535c665d406c46216d5167430c3838d40de30a0045229733edae900927181c/DSC05435.jpg" data-mid="159746683" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f8535c665d406c46216d5167430c3838d40de30a0045229733edae900927181c/DSC05435.jpg" /> Restaging Parallax, 2022Detailed view of thirty electronic UV-lit insecticidal lamps splitting the exhibitions pace in half / dimensions variable <img width="2048" height="1339" width_o="2048" height_o="1339" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/13360621133c46dd2bfcaf27cf208d259587065bcef8adcc3b26772d8cfd60e3/DSC04252.jpg" data-mid="159746991" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/13360621133c46dd2bfcaf27cf208d259587065bcef8adcc3b26772d8cfd60e3/DSC04252.jpg" /> Restaging Parallax, 2022Detailed view of thirty electronic UV-lit insecticidal lamps splitting the exhibitions pace in half / dimensions variable <img width="2048" height="1538" width_o="2048" height_o="1538" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f019df043b7cabbfba392b2573472f7800fbcdf36579ab2fbc034923b394c2ea/DSC04299.jpg" data-mid="159822971" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f019df043b7cabbfba392b2573472f7800fbcdf36579ab2fbc034923b394c2ea/DSC04299.jpg" /> Restaging Parallax, 2022Detailed view of thirty electronic UV-lit insecticidal lamps splitting the exhibitions pace in half / dimensions variable <img width="2048" height="1366" width_o="2048" height_o="1366" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f1864647503b4b4d140d9080b8c490da75b011338980c089d48e74302ef408d3/DSC05453.jpg" data-mid="159822760" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f1864647503b4b4d140d9080b8c490da75b011338980c089d48e74302ef408d3/DSC05453.jpg" /> Restaging Parallax, 2022Detailed view of thirty electronic UV-lit insecticidal lamps splitting the exhibitions pace in half / dimensions variable <img width="2048" height="1232" width_o="2048" height_o="1232" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7126ef7bcdc46276941e2cc247e1d0a90754871d7ec7edb8624b7903e66f845e/DSC05471.jpg" data-mid="159746687" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7126ef7bcdc46276941e2cc247e1d0a90754871d7ec7edb8624b7903e66f845e/DSC05471.jpg" /> Restaging Parallax, 2022Installation view of thirty electronic UV-lit insecticidal lamps splitting the exhibitions pace in half / dimensions variable <img width="2048" height="1366" width_o="2048" height_o="1366" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/33907584eca61446d5892fe3de221cd4a487bd131c4edc174f43e1e26ceb270e/DSC05414.jpg" data-mid="159746605" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/33907584eca61446d5892fe3de221cd4a487bd131c4edc174f43e1e26ceb270e/DSC05414.jpg" /> Restaging Parallax, 2022Installation view of thirty electronic UV-lit insecticidal lamps splitting the exhibitions pace in half / dimensions variable Restaging Parallax17.11 - 17.12.2022 ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art&nbsp; Sofia, Bulgaria- curated by Snejana Krasteva Deceptively minimalistic, Restaging Parallax is, in a way, the first retrospective of the Norwegian artist Lars Nordby. The eponymous installation on view presents three performative works produced by the artist between 2016 and 2018. They are restaged at the ICA exhibition space through various elements such as fake walls, insecticidal UV lights and the medium of theatricality itself. Using the latter to explore complex mechanisms of ideological constructs, Nordby often transforms daily objects into theatrical props in order to create situations while activating in the viewer a certain “parallax gaze”– an ability to immerse ourselves in the mind’s’ blind spots. This ability can, in turn, serve as a powerful tool for the beholder to enact (political) resistance. The concept of theatricality as a critical term opens up a range of useful reflections on subjects such as realism vs. illusion, authenticity, artifice, manipulation, agency and liberation, as well as on less evident concepts around identification and its constructs– a theme that Nordby consistently explores in his art practice. In The Abstract Frontline of Identity (2018), one of three works that are referenced in this exhibition, the artist uses rats and fruit flies’ natural attraction towards certain smells and light while, placing glue traps and UV lamps to lure them into their death. While we stand in wait for them to make an appearance dreading the projected moment of their end, we are momentarily oblivious to the mechanisms at play. The choice of ‘actors’ is key here––animals have long been used in literature and art to expose human artifice. Yet the rats and flies’ (premeditated) failure to attend the exhibition makes palpable instead a strong sense of staged expectations that awkwardly coincides, even for a brief moment, with part of what allegedly defines their very ‘animal’ authenticity: the magnetism inherent in their nature, a lure that eventually kills. A similar situation is enacted in an earlier work by Lars Nordby People behind the Gallery Wall (2016), whereby the artist built a fake wall in the exhibition space and, through merely the exhibition title, stated that there were people behind it. If historically animals were often deprived of agency in their authenticity, here, the human actors and their agency seem to be all there is. Whether we identify with any truth in the words (which we are ultimately denied access to) is where our agency lies, yet inevitably succumbing to the lure of aligning ourselves with the truth at a given moment is what drives us to the wall, to that thin frontline of identity the artist is exploring throughout his works. In the installation Overidentification (2016) Nordby repurposed OSB panels that were used to board up broken windows in the aftermath of the tragic terrorist attack in 2011 to board up the windows of the art institute Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, weaving into the intimate identity-formative processes wider historical events and collective memory. From animal or human ‘actors’, the artist’s attention turns to the objects' carriers of memories of defining grieves in order to explore the very possibility of a ‘parallax gaze’, of becoming aware of what eludes us when we are left with only one perspective. Restaging Parallax at ICA-Sofia Gallery is thus a small retrospective of the tactics and strategies employed by Lars Nordby rather than a straightforward chronological staging of past works. A wall of 30 bug zappers, dangerously charged with their usual voltage, divides the gallery space in half, leaving the space behind the lamps visible yet inaccessible and dysfunctional. In this final act, humans, animals and objects are united in the ultra-violent ‘promise’ of artifice and machinations. As Nordby describes it and hopefully we can see it too - “it’s a functional tendency of ideology today.” - Snejana Krasteva _ &nbsp;_ 'Restaging Parallax' is the sixth exhibition in the year-long program Superpositions 2 / Entanglement, 2022 of the Institute of Contemporary Art-Sofia. The program includes six exhibitions, each one a collaboration between an artist and a curator, along with a cycle of educational events and discussions. All these examine the entanglement of contemporary art with politics, science and technology, popular culture, gender and social movements, ecology and migration. The program is supported by the National Fund “Culture” / The Annual Program for Support of Professional Organizations in the Field of Arts and the Singer-Zahariev Foundation. The exhibition is supported by OCA - Office of Contemporary Art in Norway, ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art. <img width="1167" height="484" width_o="1167" height_o="484" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/272584608514df02ba107ee5f076f902d6ad9e82c77b364a1b852dd9dfe2a132/oca_logo.jpg" data-mid="155399584" border="0" data-scale="14" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/272584608514df02ba107ee5f076f902d6ad9e82c77b364a1b852dd9dfe2a132/oca_logo.jpg" /> Photo documentation by&nbsp;Theodora Dzherekarova. https://larsnordby.com/Weight-for-Sanity Wed, 14 Sep 2022 14:50:26 +0000 www.larsnordby.com https://larsnordby.com/Weight-for-Sanity <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/94c019d9ab1997e2b79e72339ab446b21b9d4ab326b80e2f2b7719facda2f878/IMG_0581-2.jpg" data-mid="153050878" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/94c019d9ab1997e2b79e72339ab446b21b9d4ab326b80e2f2b7719facda2f878/IMG_0581-2.jpg" />Weight for Sanity, 2022 Installation view <img width="1365" height="2048" width_o="1365" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/35eb2740d6b8355790064754885579d95f851edca62e444d62bfcbfe2ffc06d2/IMG_0620-2.jpg" data-mid="153051976" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/35eb2740d6b8355790064754885579d95f851edca62e444d62bfcbfe2ffc06d2/IMG_0620-2.jpg" /> Weight for Sanity, 2022 Installation view (Dimensions variable - metal cleat, sisal rope, and digital collage ecosolvent print - 100x150cm) <img width="1329" height="2048" width_o="1329" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b638d152d294032bf2768af128f33a70687e41fd86b127519f1d0c25c4e54006/IMG_0622.jpg" data-mid="153052128" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b638d152d294032bf2768af128f33a70687e41fd86b127519f1d0c25c4e54006/IMG_0622.jpg" /> Weight for Sanity, 2022 Digital collage (Ecosolvent print - 100x150cm) <img width="2048" height="1481" width_o="2048" height_o="1481" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f589cc7107930be5a6aab28b72580bcb36c4e6f8eef2a5787bdfe8781e154935/IMG_0716.jpg" data-mid="153050369" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f589cc7107930be5a6aab28b72580bcb36c4e6f8eef2a5787bdfe8781e154935/IMG_0716.jpg" /> <img width="1365" height="2048" width_o="1365" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9ea6b8cf0ba0acd7a36f2cb7dfac9f6cbd1989f7d8f48a8aeb35d8b64a43c28/IMG_0715.jpg" data-mid="153050034" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d9ea6b8cf0ba0acd7a36f2cb7dfac9f6cbd1989f7d8f48a8aeb35d8b64a43c28/IMG_0715.jpg" /> Weight for Sanity, 2022 Metal cleat and sisal rope <img width="1365" height="2048" width_o="1365" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0343c29fb60f1b22a847fd904d7771ea98af933a2b01304dc17c679416b7199/IMG_0677.jpg" data-mid="153036666" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b0343c29fb60f1b22a847fd904d7771ea98af933a2b01304dc17c679416b7199/IMG_0677.jpg" /> Weight for Sanity, 2022 Metal cleat and sisal rope / detail&nbsp; <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/32c6856f2c32981904f27cdc5784e9478111a04d6378f296edc5c03de15d3a53/IMG_0582-2.jpg" data-mid="153051137" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/32c6856f2c32981904f27cdc5784e9478111a04d6378f296edc5c03de15d3a53/IMG_0582-2.jpg" /> Weight for Sanity, 2022Installation view <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87938598f6d8457fc2f1aee8565ab0f881e62fd97ca8e36f22450ee11604e657/IMG_0690-3.jpg" data-mid="153052816" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/87938598f6d8457fc2f1aee8565ab0f881e62fd97ca8e36f22450ee11604e657/IMG_0690-3.jpg" /> Weight for Sanity, 2022Installation view <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/91053b05f174a12bfde5ae126d491ebc82ab5c14b2f321848a880ad89fc931f9/IMG_0708-2.jpg" data-mid="153053056" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/91053b05f174a12bfde5ae126d491ebc82ab5c14b2f321848a880ad89fc931f9/IMG_0708-2.jpg" /> Weight for Sanity, 2022Installation view (Dimensions variable - metal cleat, sisal rope, and digital collage ecosolvent print - 100x150cm) <img width="1358" height="2048" width_o="1358" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ff4720aa8fd7f6bbaf8c35a49411a3948e49330ff2f8414d26990dd11b1b9e21/IMG_0705-2.jpg" data-mid="153053213" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ff4720aa8fd7f6bbaf8c35a49411a3948e49330ff2f8414d26990dd11b1b9e21/IMG_0705-2.jpg" /> Weight for Sanity, 2022 Digital collage (Ecosolvent print -&nbsp;100x150cm) <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/feef0dd44286995234c2d2df15c32f2e5dcc394a4a46379b035e19c53662017d/IMG_0721-2.jpg" data-mid="153053286" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/feef0dd44286995234c2d2df15c32f2e5dcc394a4a46379b035e19c53662017d/IMG_0721-2.jpg" />Weight for Sanity, 2022Installation view (Dimensions variable - concrete tiles, metal cleat, metal hinge, sisal rope, and digital collage ecosolvent print - 100x150cm) <img width="1365" height="2048" width_o="1365" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eeac91efa15fa2f7efac884d983f52397b5ae62219be60e089e57bc6eb469616/IMG_0701.jpg" data-mid="153049473" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eeac91efa15fa2f7efac884d983f52397b5ae62219be60e089e57bc6eb469616/IMG_0701.jpg" /> Weight for Sanity, 2022 Metal hinge, concrete tiles, and sisal rope / detail <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c03f0b503a5528f43412420be385cc50ea20e5e45abf1660331bbf2870e4f214/IMG_0663-2.jpg" data-mid="153053361" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c03f0b503a5528f43412420be385cc50ea20e5e45abf1660331bbf2870e4f214/IMG_0663-2.jpg" /> Weight for Sanity, 2022Steel rope pulley and sisal rope / detail <img width="1365" height="2048" width_o="1365" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74b37dd5d28f1198958d2468195bfef7bae571339629ac629f2dff77d7537ea5/IMG_0650.jpg" data-mid="153036009" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/74b37dd5d28f1198958d2468195bfef7bae571339629ac629f2dff77d7537ea5/IMG_0650.jpg" /> Weight for Sanity, 2022Installation view (Dimensions variable - concrete tiles, metal cleat, metal hinge, sisal rope, and digital collage ecosolvent print - 100x150cm) <img width="2048" height="1375" width_o="2048" height_o="1375" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f3db4c8bb3c490266a875539db96b8889761b311f6d9e6e27452eb0956ae046/IMG_0648.jpg" data-mid="153035532" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f3db4c8bb3c490266a875539db96b8889761b311f6d9e6e27452eb0956ae046/IMG_0648.jpg" /> Weight for Sanity, 2022Sisal rope / detail Lars Nordby&nbsp; www.larsnordby.com post@larsnordby.com Weight for Sanity19.07 - 07.09.2022 Group exhibition / part of BAZA Awards 2022 Sofia City Art Gallery Sofia, BulgariaCurated by&nbsp;Marina Slavova “With the mise-en-scené titled Weight for Sanity, merge digital collages with self-drawn theatre blueprints including stage weights and mimic mechanical stage ropes that initially control theatre curtains - revealing what ìs to be performed.” - Excerpt from the exhibition description https://larsnordby.com/Concement-1 Sat, 03 Sep 2022 12:46:51 +0000 www.larsnordby.com https://larsnordby.com/Concement-1 <img width="1355" height="1329" width_o="1355" height_o="1329" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/25097d91d824d355b2b24c0fdd3cd1f6d4228abd98c055bbcc97213dd52b57f5/Gabrovo-Biennial-Contemporary-Art-RosinaPencheva-0106-copy.jpg" data-mid="151991495" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/25097d91d824d355b2b24c0fdd3cd1f6d4228abd98c055bbcc97213dd52b57f5/Gabrovo-Biennial-Contemporary-Art-RosinaPencheva-0106-copy.jpg" /> Concement (Golem No More), 2022 Installation view of two pallets with 76 cement bags wrapped in artist-made cement bag packaging with text work. <img width="1171" height="1125" width_o="1171" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5910b75fc0b3a3206812bd14852eb201b32f2a50fb701039926ebd943d843f9f/Gabrovo-Biennial-2022-ContemporaryArt-RosinaPencheva-1706-copy.jpg" data-mid="152942027" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5910b75fc0b3a3206812bd14852eb201b32f2a50fb701039926ebd943d843f9f/Gabrovo-Biennial-2022-ContemporaryArt-RosinaPencheva-1706-copy.jpg" /> Concement (Golem No More), 2022Installation view of two pallets with 76 cement bags wrapped in artist-made cement bag packaging with text work. <img width="2048" height="1093" width_o="2048" height_o="1093" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bad0bc4c2b5a482968fd5642641b8f2b4185eafba21adbc8127708ccbd1a9b3b/IMG_0415.jpg" data-mid="152942729" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bad0bc4c2b5a482968fd5642641b8f2b4185eafba21adbc8127708ccbd1a9b3b/IMG_0415.jpg" /> Concement (Golem No More), 2022Detail of artist-made cement bag packaging with text work. <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f9e68ec4ce3d50364e86cbe783c343e76d383756ff1855d7a2736f9942e36fa3/IMG_0449.jpg" data-mid="152945194" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f9e68ec4ce3d50364e86cbe783c343e76d383756ff1855d7a2736f9942e36fa3/IMG_0449.jpg" /> Concement (Golem No More), 2022Detail of artist-made cement bag packaging with text work. <img width="1365" height="2048" width_o="1365" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc78297920e7ee8b4afe1e4828cb6323717de7a301a02fba14cc91866b463905/IMG_0432.jpg" data-mid="152944504" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bc78297920e7ee8b4afe1e4828cb6323717de7a301a02fba14cc91866b463905/IMG_0432.jpg" /> Concement (Golem No More), 2022Detail of artist-made cement bag packaging with text work. <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/47226ed69f9e036ecdb2b2c3e19a353e898cacad46da2d0230864e930de8558c/IMG_0444.jpg" data-mid="152945012" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/47226ed69f9e036ecdb2b2c3e19a353e898cacad46da2d0230864e930de8558c/IMG_0444.jpg" />Concement (Golem No More), 2022Detail of artist-made cement bag packaging with text work. <img width="1585" height="1118" width_o="1585" height_o="1118" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/52120bcf61a92ccf9437e7d922d959681714db0bd1a64ec6d187fb5a501a6467/Gabrovo-Biennial-Contemporary-Art-RosinaPencheva-0118-copy.jpg" data-mid="151991892" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/52120bcf61a92ccf9437e7d922d959681714db0bd1a64ec6d187fb5a501a6467/Gabrovo-Biennial-Contemporary-Art-RosinaPencheva-0118-copy.jpg" />Concement (Golem No More), 2022Installation view of two pallets with 76 cement bags wrapped in artist-made cement bag packaging with text work. Concement (Golem No More)20.05 - 01.10.2022Group exhibition / part of the 25th Gabrovo BiennialeGabrovo, Bulgaria Curated by&nbsp;Olav Westphalen For the 25th Gabrovo Biennale context, Nordby stages an art installation of cement bags - one of the most stubborn, harmful, and consumed materials of the 21st Century - parodying ways of framing material overconsumption. Two pallets of thirty-eight cement bags each are placed on the floor in the Gabrovo Museums exhibition space. Each bag has new artist-made packaging with original poetic text-work.&nbsp; - Excerpt from the 25th Gabrovo Biennale catalog The world has been running on steroids. Nature is privatized and cheapened. Our voracious extraction and consumption of resources have created an ecological debt gone default. Acceleration and gigantism have shaped a metabolic cycle between capital and nature, North and South, rich and poor, clean and polluted, with greed and hypertrophy on one end and exhaustion on the other. There is a global freak show going on, a spectacle of disproportion and distortion reminiscent of those 19th century displays of deformed humans and animals. Only now it happens on a planetary scale and we’re all in it. At times, it seems as if the vicious comedy of the freak show might be the appropriate response to our present-day monstrosity. - Excerpt from the 25th Gabrovo Biennale press release Photo documentation by&nbsp;Rosina Pencheva