Adrift (2021) - Video Sculpture

Adrift tries to capture some of the claustrophobic and dramatic feeling that we can all experience at times, a feeling of drifting away without control. This feeling can arise when we are faced with the changes that take place in a human being, such as in the transition from adolescence to adulthood, or the changes we must face collectively, such as climate change and migration.

 Duration: 8 min. (loop). Photo: Sølve Sæther and Carsten Aniksdal. Clip: Charlotte Thiis-Evensen. Color: Berit Iren Apke. Video Sculptur by architect Vilhelm Christensen. Assistant: Nina Krogh. Thanks to: Faduma, Mohammed, Saiida and Fawsia, Gustav, Enrique and Christine, Stella and Laura.

Exhibited in: Galleri F15 in Moss, Bomuldsfabriken i Arendal and Muratcentoventidue in Bari, Italia.

Made with support from the Visual Artists' Remuneration Fund, the Bergesen Foundation, the Fund for Sound and Vision, Fritt Ord, the Cultural Council, REV Ocean and Oslo Municipality.

Adrift (2021) - Photoinstallation

The photographs on Spuntveggen in Moss are taken from the video work Adrift (2020). The train to Bane Nor will run along these rails in the future and I imagined how to see the film windows from the train windows as three small films.

I imagine the speed that on the train will mean that the 9 routes in different places could be experienced as 3 small films, small excerpts from the video work Adrift. The photographs illustrate film routes, as one remembers it from the older analogue films where routes one after the other together give the movements one sees in the film. Since the train will go both ways, the films will also have different endings, whether the young people come up out of the water or sink, whether they come floating towards the camera or floating away from the camera.

I saw Spuntveggen in Moss as part of the whole with the containers on the quay and the sea that extends behind them and wants the work to be so simple that it is open to different interpretations, whether it can give associations to feelings related specifically to changes of climate and migration, but just as often related to thoughts about being alienated in a new country or homeland. Or just the changes that happen in a human being, in the transition from adolescence to adulthood. 

The work on Spuntveggen was taken down in November 2020, but has received support from KORO and will be built permanently in a new location in Moss in the spring of 2022.