CHANGE IN CIRCUMSTANCE

Kulturbadet Sandnessjøen
27.08.20 - 30.09.20

On March 12, 2020, the day Norway closed down due to covid-19, I had a week earlier, opened a large retrospective exhibition in Bergen. It was ten years of work consisting of films, photography and drawings. I had to quickly close the exhibition on the day of March 13, unpack everything and send the entire exhibition back to Oslo. It took 4 hours. The world stopped and I with it. Together with the family in a house at Ekely in Oslo, we found a rhythm that consisted of home school and zoom meetings with students and clients. At first, everything felt completely absurd and scary. We were paralyzed. I could not do or think of anything other than trying to adapt our lives to the new rules on infection control. Anitbac, antibac antibac… .and so I started to make drawings. I drew what was happening around me and compiled everything in weekly diaries. Korona diary week 13, 14, 15, 16… .etc. For more than two months I kept doing that. What was dominant in the beginning was all mouth guards. Then it became man's relationship with the animals and in the end everything just became empty. After almost four months with covid-19 and for the most part home school and home office, we went on a boat holiday in our old Draco Styling from 1987. I bought a super-8 camera on finn.no. Ordered film cassettes from England and made my first analog film in over 25 years.