CHRONIC PLURALISM PART 2: LKV 30 YEARS

01 – 17 December 2023

Märit Aronsson, Torhild Aukan, Paul Bendon, Marit Bjartnes, Alex Booker, Inger Brattvoll, Pål Bøyesen, Sigrid Voll Bøyum, Polina Chernitskaya, Carlos A. Correia, Jan Eirik Evjen, Amalia Fonfara, Eigil Forberg, Dag-Arve Forbergskog, Matilde Westavik Gaustad, HC Gilje, Ellen Sofie Griegel, Knut Eerik Wessel Halvorsen, Anne Helga Henning, Anne-Tove Huse, Birgit Kvamme Lundheim, Kari Elise Mobeck, Per Stian Monsås, Merete Morgenstierne, Anne Kristin Myrseth, Robert K. Nilsen, Elisabet Alsos Strand, Barbro Maria Tiller, Leiken Vik.

Welcome to the final part of LKV’s anniversary exhibition Chronic Pluralism!
Opening: Thursday December 1st, 18:00–20:00.

We take 29 new foreign elements and mash them together in a small room. They will live together for a few weeks. Uprooted from their safe surroundings. Deployed. They will shine for themselves, and yield to the unit. Stand on each other’s shoulders and take all the attention. Those who are able to see the second least spectacular, or give the benefit of the doubt to what does not immediately look like the cream of the crop, might find the common thread. Visually or thematically. Or neither. Doesn’t that remind you of something… The references spread like grains of sand. Best to keep a good distance, or to get so close that everything else disappears.

There’s a window hanging in the window. They’re co-hanging. And through them you can see other windows in to, or out into, other landscapes. Connections. Wind from other places. Blowing observations in through 29 open windows. Meadows. The scent from 29 wild plants. Representants. No one has a veto there. Everyone must take their place. For some, it’s on the verge of self-annihilation. For others, like a crutch stabilisation.

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Chronic Pluralism Part 2 is the second and final part of the exhibitions marking Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder’s 30th anniversary. The two exhibitions have shown works from 52 artists who have, or previously had, a studio at LKV.

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This exhibition was generously supported by Trøndelag County Authority.