Vernissage.

KRISTINA KVALVIK
Night Shift, 2009
Vernissage/Opening 23 oktober 18-21
24 oktober - 14 november
Öppet/open: ons-fre/wed-fri 13-17, lör/sat 13-16

Abandoned Gallery presenterar Kristina Kvalvik och hennes nya verk Night Shift, en video som utgörs av bilder från urbana platser nattetid – där man endast anar spår av en karaktärs rörelser i dessa öde, men ändå bekanta omgivningar. I Night Shift undersöks tvetydigheten i vem som betraktar vem, övervakning av invånare i urbana miljöer och utsattheten i detta. Som betraktare får man följa protagonistens resa genom staden – positionen som både övervakare och passiv åskådare skapar distans och frammanar en kuslig atmosfär.

Abandoned Gallery presents Kristina Kvalvik and the newly produced work Night Shift, a single channel video, which consists of images of empty urban spaces at night – containing only traces of a character’s movement in desolate, yet familiar surroundings. The notion of surveillance of urban spaces, and its inhabitants, the ambiguity of who is watching who and projections of fear are examined in Night Shift. The viewer follows the protagonist’s journey through the city from a distance – both as a passive spectator and as the surveyor, which invokes an eerie atmosphere.

Kristina Kvalvik is a Norwegian artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. She has studied film and fine art in Norway, Sweden and Canada, and completed her MFA from Malmö Art Academy (SE) in 2008. Kvalvik´s work deals with matters relating to surveillance, the inexplicable, and the threatening. In her video installations Kvalvik examines the limitations of sight and our ability to interpret what we see. Kvalvik has exhibited her work internationally and has been awarded with a grant from the Danish Arts Council in 2009.

www.kristinakvalvik.com

Varmt välkomna/A warm welcome
Anna Norberg, Curator