Detalj shots from textile installations,
35. mm Jenny Hviding
Elvelangs event, Oslo, 2024.
Rope access crew, Shota Samizu, Ben.
Textile, fabric, smell, spray, rope, lights, metal.
Commission work, Gamle Oslo.
The purpose of this project, was to transform a somewhat heavy and forgotten area along Akerselva, into something else for a night.
I wanted to welcome the audience into a lighter, warmer energy, selecting specific colours, smell and texture. The aesthetics choices like shiny material and the palette were to invoice a calm energy. Something ethereal. The fabric installed in a manner as if a wash left to be dried in the wind. Infusing the textiles with different techniques of spiritual cleansing, smell and incense. Leaving you to walk into an immersed sensory based installation.
This forms the basis for next years suspension methods regarding installations, how to explore working in public space, as well as collaborations with the municipality.
Rope Access Team: Shota Samizu, Ben.
Images: Benyamin Farnam.
Fishingthread, wool, denim, polyester, wood, metall. 2024.
Group exhibition, Scraps, Thorsønn design, Oslo, Norway.
How and in what way can we create from what already exists? Are materials already given a certain expiry date, or is it possible to work in a collective form; reshaping and thinking about value as well as durability….
Scraps starts as a conversation between Norwegian hand craftsmen/designers to artists; on how to reuse, redo and start fresh with something that someone regards as unsuitable. An experiment of putting materials into form, wool or other wooden things from a fabric in Gudbrandsdalen.
All materials are found, and that to me represents a new way of thinking about art. More focused on the collective, as well as perhaps a greener way of looking at it all. Could collaborative art really be the future on how we view for instance scraps and excess materials? I would ask you simply to think of all the expressions that we use unconsciously every day which invoke a textile: a threadbare argument, weaving a plot, spinning a tale, making something up out of whole cloth, building a network of users…
The web and the spider, represents all of us intertwined in our generations, how women carry 8 generations in their body and dna. The intersections between femininity and the web. How we are all dependent on each other as a family, a society and as a whole, to function.
As I write this in my studio, I look at the wall bathing in light, and there is a small black spider crawling on the wall. Sun flickering on her back, she's climbing towards the plant. She wants to build more.
3.rd viewing and istallation of Arr series. Oslo 2023.
collaboration with Neue Design Studio as well as Atelie Art.
Sound, textile, video, photography.
ARR /// (refleksjon) project is the last part in a trilogy, made between 2016-2023. Made as an experience based exposition, a place of relaxation and contemplation. installations. Bringing nature into the exposition space as a way of connection to others as well as one self.
«In a literal play on the name of the exhibition, (ARR) we used motion to scar the images. Using motion we also added the element of time. Giving the memory life. The scarring itself represents the distortion of our memories, and how we perceive them over time. Like missing pieces of a memory – or a distorted view of what happened. «
ARR shows an outtake of an ongoing experimental project, regarding your own consciousness and presence in life, as well as our mental health. It explores what happens when we document and occupy spaces in between the duality of vulnerability, the edges, as well as the highs and lows. An experiment on how the lense can capture and transform traumas somehow; into something like a self help tool that makes the lows more manageable, more comprehensible.
It shows 3 narratives, a before, during and after, all meshed and woven together. Nature is brought into the gallery room as an aid for the audience, to send the message about connecting back with nature, as well as an indication on what helped the process of healing and understanding. Creating from a place of stillness, to take the viewer into some sort of ethereal state. Working with giving the audience a sensory based experience.
Documentation images of residency and exhibition at NW, Copenhagen, 2022.
Sound, textile, photography, nature, branches and candle.
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.
Documentation of the installation, Reykjavik, fishing factory, 2018.
Video, sound, wood and plastic.
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.
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.
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:
Photographic exhibition, Oslo, Norway. P,0 GALLERY (2019)
Exhibition, Reykjavik 2019.