‘THE LOCATION OF TEARS’

Resepsjonsgalleri, Oslo, Norway

19—27 Mar 2021

‘The Location of Tears’; photographic transparency, plaster, epoxy resin, vaseline on floor & window, eassay engraved on cardboard, pencil on linen canvas & medium-density fibreboard (MDF); dimension variable 
Installation view of ‘The Location of Tears’

Untitled IX (Your palm flies across the front seat); photographic transparencies, plaster, epoxy resin; 10x10x1.5 (cm)

Untitled VI (Bursts in silence); photographic transparencies, plaster, epoxy resin; 10x10x1.5 (cm)

Untitled X (Slaps in rage); photographic transparencies, plaster, epoxy resin; 10x10x1.5 (cm)

Close-up of ‘The Location of Tears’; vaseline on floor & window

Close-up of ‘The Location of Tears’; vaseline on floor & window

Installation view of ‘The Location of Tears’; vaseline on floor & window
Installation view of ‘The Location of Tears’; eassay engraved on cardboard in the vitrine ouside of the exhibition hall

Close-up of ‘The Location of Tears’

(Photo documentation by Istvan Virag)

Open wounds
A blocked drain
Betel nuts
Subtropical oceans
Hardened plaster dries dampness

Three plump memories hide in the dark, stepping on their right toes, flexing them with cracking heels. They crawl along with soggy secrets on their backs. In and out, in and out wet traces become a polish on the ground. Everything is visible, though light is absent. One of the memories strikes up a conversation. ‘Have you seen the other two?’

Memory is slippery. It shows itself as glimpses, incomplete shapes of a narrative hidden. It is porous, draining into itself in an active search for reconstructed identities. Fragmented memories become categorized: a self-portrait that is more a referential, authorial fiction than an autobiography.

‘The Location of Tears’ combines three essays, fifteen panels of photographic transparencies, layers of vaseline (applied on the floor and windows every day), exploring the concealed and the exposed, the narrative and the non-narrative. The bodies of the texts and the pictures are trying to capture one another in the patriarchal waves of my orbit, or yours.

Support:
Oslo National Academy of the Arts (Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo) & S-An Cultural Foundation (‘S-An Aesthetics Award 2021’)

Installation view of ‘The Location of Tears’; entrance to Resepsjonsgalleri, Oslo, Norway.

Close-up of ‘The Location of Tears’; vaseline, pencil on linen canvas & medium-density fibreboard (MDF)

(Photo documentation by
Dale Rothenberg)

Installation view of ‘The Location of Tears’ at Northing Space, Bergen, Norway.

(Photo documentation by
Dale Rothenberg)

Untitled I (Boys); photographic transparencies, plaster, epoxy resin; 10x10x1.5 (cm); Northing Space, Bergen, Norway.

(Photo documentation by
Dale Rothenberg)

Untitled XIII (Betel Nuts); photographic transparencies, plaster, epoxy resin; 10x10x1.5 (cm); Northing Space, Bergen, Norway.

(Photo documentation by
Dale Rothenberg)

Untitled IV (Shadow); photographic transparencies, plaster, epoxy resin; 10x10x1.5 (cm); Northing Space, Bergen, Norway.