JENNY ALNAES `work 'ODYSSE`' (photo-collage) derives from photo-material
of her journeys to various countries and parts of the world. In confrontation with other places and cultures our senses and our awareness is challenced.
The result is a feeling of insecurity and doubt of our own identity and that of our surroundings. Everything appears as equally important or un-important, one starts to search for safe points or well known patterns.
The METROPOLE appears in her works as a melting-pot in constant flux. Diverse view-points are brought together as seen in cubism. Therefore they give an impression of being a conglomeration of fragments, all single elements seem to have the same importance - at the same time to belong to a distinct pattern. One discovers that they contain many layers. This is not only a question of diverse layers of culture but also of physical structures.The ideas are visualised by way of puncturing the collages letting light through in small light-spots which describes a pattern of streets in a particular city. In this manner one has a vision of a close-up picture and at the same time of watching the structures of civilisation in a bird perspective.
In these collages the spectator is experiencing the unknown. In trying to sort out details and putting things together in a culturel context, nearness and distance seem complementary. Alnæs offers us the magic and the experience of the encounter with the place of expectations.of culture, but also of physical structures.
In the photo-collages the spectator experiences a sensation of alienation visualised, as well as the sensation of details. In this effort to try to put things into a cultural context, we experience something which represents nearness and distance at the same time. Alnæs gives us the magic an experience of the encounter with the place of expectations.
KryssXPunkt
Jenny Alnaes, Grete Lis Bibalo, Jannecke Lonne Christiansen, Barbro Hernes
The four artists who represent KRYSS PUNKT have a common understanding
of photography as a tool which offers various strategies for organizing REALITY.
To create the necessary distance to the ever pressing and sometimes threatening facts of the world, they transpose this reality by ways of artistical means and change it into something manageable.
The idea of the project is based on the artists common attitude to photography as such. Namely as a tool to be used as raw-material in the process of creating the final work, without taking away its own identity. The condition for this brake of reality is found in our expectation of the authenticity of photography and its representation of something which HAS BEEN. This feeling is sti...