Join us on a journey with your senses into your innermost self, into what is around you, into the infinity of communication and into the symphony of presence. 4 May we open the exhibition An unsung song / Lávllukeahtes lávlla with Kåfjord artist Marita Isobel Solberg.
What: Opening of the exhibition: An unsung song / Lávllukeahtes lávlla
When: 4 May, at.. 19.00
Where: Davvi álbmogiid guovddáš/ Centre for Northern Peoples, Gallery
Exhibition period: 4 May - 28 August 2019
In collaboration with Davvi álbmogiid guovddáš / Centre for Northern Peoples, artist Marita lsobel Solberg from Manndalen in Kåfjord presents the exhibition An unsung song / Lávllukeahtes lávlla. The exhibition is based on Solberg's first solo exhibition with the same name, which was held at NNKS - Nordnorsk kunstnersenter in 2018.
The exhibition An unsung song / Lávllukeahtes lávlla consists of a lush composition of different objects. All are linked to Solberg's own northern Norwegian and Sami background and history. The strong storytelling tradition in the north is the starting point for the exhibition project. Recordings of stories from her own circle have formed the raw material for compositions and improvisations. As an audience member, you are invited to share, either by letting yourself be inspired by the sounds around you and letting loose with the microphone, or by recording your own story on a recorder.
Solberg has a strong material sensitivity, and a practice that allows her to expand beyond the exhibition space with a variety of elements, and she also uses her own presence through performance art and music.
The artist says that with the exhibition An Unsung Song / Lávllukeahtes lávlla she wants to take us on a journey:
A journey with the senses into the innermost, into what is around you, into the infinity of communication and into the symphony of presence. The starting point has been sounds and melodies in the languages and dialects that have surrounded me throughout my life, set against place and themes such as form, natural materials, colour, light and sound, woven together with thin white threads.
Marita Isobel Solberg is a musician and visual artist who works with sound, performance and installations. She holds a master's degree from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (2007), and since childhood she has taken singing lessons and explored various musical genres. Based in Tromsø, Solberg lives a nomadic life on the Norwegian and international art scene.
Solberg is originally from Manndalen in Troms, and stories from the Sea Sami community she grew up in form the backbone of the project. At the same time, it's important for her to emphasise the fact that she, like all of us, has roots from all over the world.
About the exhibition En usunget sang / Lávllukeahtes lávlla / A song unsung, NNKS
What's in the memory, sekunst.no
Marita Isobel Solberg's website
About Marita Isobel Solberg's performance in Mexico City 2018, Frieze
See photos from the exhibition An unsung song. Photo: Ørjan Bertelsen
