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Exhibition

Avgang 2024: Eili Bråstad / Veri ja Terva (blod og tjære)

Avgang 2024: Eili Bråstad / Veri ja Terva (blod og tjære)

The innermost part of these roots never rot, my dad told me. The innermost parts of these roots look like flesh. The root is like an anchor in the forest, that clings to the ground even long after the trunk is gone.

I belong to everything. Everything belongs to me. My friends are my family, my thoughts are all mine. We kvens have been deprived of much that belonged to us, in order to blend in with the majority. We kvens - Met kväänit. The pieces must be piled like the pile of roots prepared for the distillation of tar. A tradition once so strong in the kven culture that the result went by the name “the Black Gold of the Kvens”.

The roots presented in the exhibition are from Reisadalen in the northern part of Norway - an area where people only a few generations ago, would speak three languages; Kven, Sámi and Norwegian, but which, after several decades of harsh assimilation politics, lost much of its language diversity and identity. Here I grew up, surrounded by historical fragments - stories I have heard and know exist, but which are at the same time an abstraction.

In dreams, it is common for the incompatible to be united. I am interested in these logical breaks and what happens in these spaces. The under-worldly creatures, that are prominent in kven myths, and our parallel worlds. While they represent our fears, they might also provide solutions for ways to approach to, and live in nature.

Eili Bråstad (b.1981) works with film/video, photography, installation and live visuals, and explores the spaces between the various disciplines. She has collaborated with musicians and stage artists, and her short films and experimental videos that have been screened around the world.

Welcome to Eili Bråstad's exhibition Veri ja Terva (Blood and Tar)
at Galleri 69/Grünerløkka Lufthavn.
Opening Friday 23rd of February 19:00-21:00.
Open Thursday-Sunday 13:00-17:00. Last day is 10th of March.

MFA Graduation Projects

The final year Master students will present individual graduation projects in different spaces at KHIO and around Oslo. These newly developed projects will be diverse in form and will take place at different times during the spring semester. Some of the projects will open simultaneously. The graduating students will also collectively explore the group format in a curated group exhibition at Kunstnernes Hus. For several decades, the Academy was located at the back of the house, and in 2012, Kunstnernes Hus resumed its close relationship with the academy by showing the annual graduation exhibition in the Master of Fine Art.
Read more: https://artacademycalendar.khio.no/mfa-graduation-projects