"Exhibiting Traces" is part of an ongoing series of work that uses the body as its point of departure both visually and thematically which holds in the balance the sweet and beautiful and the ugly and twisted. We all have a body, a physical entity that we all can relate to, even though different and in multitude of versions it becomes a common entry point to the works in this series at the same time as it is connected to the viewers own, personal, unique body. A body can be loved, and just as easily hated, something you seek solace in, or something that you want to escape with all your might. Throughout life we balance on this knife edge between love and hate, and as our body changes, with age, accidents, operations, and a multitude of other external forces, it changes from something known, to something unknown, something strange that is destined for decay. It's almost ironic that we are both dependent on this vessel, and at the same time it can cause the utter extremes of pleasure and pain, and it's the clock of our inevitable demise. These works change, become we and dirty, wrinkles and deteriorates, the change from the plain smooth surface that is so touchable, to something you would like to avoid. Through the uses as hand towels they bear the  mark of every persons hand, a body in relation to others, changed by others, and finally becomes an object that we would like to avoid, to not touch, but rather forget. And this is when you relate, when you avoid or though you step onto the knife edge with your own body, somewhere between pleasure and pain, beauty and ugliness, the wanted and unwanted all mirrored in your own bodily experience.

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"Exhibiting Traces" was part of Gruppe-11 show "Heimkomst" at Gyldenpris Kunsthall 2021, and the group show "Utbrudd" at Rogaland Kunstsenter 2021.

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Documentation from the Exhibition Heimkomst

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Information on the groupshow Utbrudd at Rogaland Kunstsenter