Forelesning
Sigrid Sandström / Felt Paint – Activity and Thing
In this lecture Sigrid Sandström will reflect on the role time and place has played, and is playing, in her painting practice.
Painting somehow always lingers between its “thinginess” and the activity that precedes that thing. A slippery slope dried up. A painting is to me an object of experience, a time capsule stored with information, a thought-thing.
In this lecture I will reflect on the role time and place has played, and is playing, in my painting practice. I will discuss painted pictorial places within the paintings, as well as the surrounding exhibition places/ spaces in which the paintings are exhibited. I will also focus on the activity of paintings as a passage of time, manifested through the traces and records of a previous activity. Painting thus is where present and past tense meet.
The older I get the less I seem to know what my paintings are "about", I experience a kind of visual amnesia at times, and instead I am aiming for some other experiential approach to time. I paint to kill time and to understand time. And maybe to mark time.
This lecture is a part of the public program at the academy of fine art, and the talk will be led by professor Melissa Gordon. All talks are free and open to all, you can find the full program here: https://artacademycalendar.khio.no/