Sorgenfri Gallery, 11/08-21/08 2022

video work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6khQsU4aq8

Group exhibition, Kösk Gallery, Oslo, 2021.

Silk printed long sleeve from 10/10. Still avaliable in shop. L, XL.

Commissioned work, Oslo Kommune, 2022. Acrylic on dyed cotton.

Commission work

Acrylic on hand dyed cotton,

ropes and cut fabric.

Acrylic on cotton, 2020-2022.

Reykjavik, Iceland, November, 2018. Exhibited in an old fishing factory.

In this project I re-contextualized earlier video footage I had taken years before in the Amazon, Brazil. Making a site specific mixed media installation, using found materials near the shore, like rope and fishing boxes. I wanted to connect the fishing and boat community in the amazon and in Iceland. As well as to create a safe space, a room of nature and pleasure, where you could take a moment from real life and wander off into a digital forest. I worked a lot with the sound recordings and images, as well as playing around with several projectors.

The footage in this project is from my time living in Brazil, filmed over a span of years, in various locations in the jungle. It wasn't assembled until many years after, after a deep longing of connecting to nature and strengthening my sense of belonging. Nature always allows a way back to oneself and this is an experimental homage to the green lungs that exist, and to all the spaces that we can create on an inner level. Just by going there in our minds, it is there all around us, if we let it. She always leads us straight to the core.

The project installation visually manifests a very personal happy and sacred place that lives inside of me. By recreating these moments, I was able to let it guide me further in my day to day life. To reconnect a sense of belonging in my body through nature and through the process of constructing this soothing room for the viewer. I wanted to take you in the jungle with me, to make you feel relaxed and intertwined with our earth. It was a hope to plant seeds of nature in someone else's mind, by feeling grounded and present.

Experiment and create a dialog with the body, making prints. Performing only for the documentation. Uncut and with no audience. Just the fabric, paint and myself.

I wanted to make something joyous, playful and feminine. Amusement in sensible pleasures, of putting paint all over your body. The liberty of being naked and rolling around on a huge canvas.

TA VARE, is an ongoing experimental visual expression through paint, colors and clothes. It launched in late fall (2020) and will continue throughout the years to come.

TA VARE started years ago, by putting various clothing articles aside, unknowingly of their purpose, but still saving them for something. Most of them were kept in a bag for over 10 years, but quite a few actually were my favorite t-shirt, sweater or bathing suit….

Then the need to create something playful, joyous and unifying, became evident during the lock down; I started looking at the clothes and what I could do with them. Having paint, photography and film as such strong elements in my art practice, combining them felt only natural. And out of that TA VARE was born.

Sand toned, beige and green set the tone for this collection, picking out mainly oversized pieces as well as some bathing suits etc. Something I myself would feel sexy and comfortable wearing. While creating and shooting, as well as during the release, I mainly listened to Techno. It transmits me into such a state of peace, and fills me with an immense drive and inner energy.

So the two girls in the images are sisters, and having worked together before, I'm just in love with their bond and vibe. During a previous photography shoot at their house, they told me about their passion for music and learning how to DJ. An appetite that we have in common. For music, dance culture and community. I later asked if they wanted to play their first gig at the TA VARE release. Honored by the possibility to share platforms with similar minded female creatives and to hopefully make people feel like they had a break from this madness called life and Corona. We at least blasted techno from the afternoon until the place closed ;)

Ta vare means to take care, mostly expressed to people in a goodbye and departure.

A small performance I did a while ago. Finding absolute pleasure in doing this. Drawing on skin.... Mmmmm. Could there be anything better really.

(2018)

Photo Booth. Growing into my own skin. (2014-)

I started this project as a way of understanding myself. To connect to the person I saw in the reflection, mirror and then Photo booth. In the beginning it was strange observing myself, but after a while I got so used to having the camera recording in all kinds of situations, that at times I forgot it was even there. I performed for the camera, for myself, for a viewer who is not present other than in my fantasy. I performed for my inner self perhaps, with the dialog being held.
This is one of the projects I will never stop doing, as life continues and evolves. I do believe in 2021, I am closer to myself and have found a way to connect with what I see. And that makes me hopeful for the future.

I wanna know what love is is part of this photo booth project, filming myself through my mac in various situations. Dance, painting, love and life blends together with the need to document.

(2019, Reykjavik)

stills from the photobooth project

Exhibition documentation, Uncertain States Scandinavia, Nordic Light Festival, October, 2021.

Audio work: Listen here:

Group Exhibition, London 2022

4. handframed photographs. 35 mm.

Photographic exhibition, Oslo, Norway. P,0 GALLERY (2019)

Experimental short movie about the individualisation of northern western society, with some layers of madness by Jenny Hviding.

WATCH THE SHORT MOVIE HERE

Reflections from James Baldwin on suffering.
Talent: Simon Møgster,
Editors clothes and Robot Oslo.
Thank you to all the people involved.
Oslo, 2022.
www.jennyhvidingvisuals.com
@jennyhvidingvisuals

Alone:
“ Lying, thinking
Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone
I came up with one thing
And I don't believe I'm wrong
That nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.
There are some millionaires
With money they can't use
Their wives run round like banshees
Their children sing the blues
They've got expensive doctors
To cure their hearts of stone.
But nobody
No, nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Now if you listen closely
I'll tell you what I know
Storm clouds are gathering
The wind is gonna blow
The race of man is suffering
And I can hear the moan,
'Cause nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone. “

By Maya Angelou.

Exhibition, Reykjavik 2019.

(2020)