Ragnhild Aamås
@ragnaam is a great powerhouse for the art scene in Norway. She has an active practice as an artist, works as author / art critic AND she was recently selected as President of UKS Unge Kunstneres Samfund / Young Artists' Society
@uks1921
UKS is Norways oldest national artist union, securing artists rights, and they celebrated turning 100 in 2021.
Artist statement by Aamås:
"In my work you’ll see sculpture, text, collage and sound. I have established a way of working and a body of work that particularly looks at the effects of language and the capture of the writing system. I base myself on poor, commercial and found materials. Since I developed «Echo Cleans the Mirror Sore» for Kunsthall Stavanger over their archive in 2015, I have worked with institutional archives on several occasions. Latest in a series of sonic microessays for Kunstnerforbundet in 2023. I’m attracted to an investigative form that branches into and interweaves written and visual materials.
Rather than using the default in the order we live under – the individual – I look to the ‘divid’, and let it stand for a dismembered kind of negative subject that searches for cracks to worry in. I’m currently learning more about the work of Italian artist Anne-Marie Sauzeau-Boetti, and Norwegian Kristina Bræin.
In addition to solo work, I’m part of the artist group infopsin, with Ayat Tuleubek, Ignas Krunglevicius og Istvan Virag. During 2014-2021 I was co-directing the artist run space
@podium_oslo I also write about art for moneys. And I’m freshly elected chair of the board at UKS - Unge Kunstneres Samfund / Young Artists’ Society."
Images show
1. Aamås, pix by Studio Hivand.
2. Oxe tongues sculptures casted in soap, from the meat industry; Dei levande søve, og dei døde har godt av å bli litt skremt / Maintenance sleep (2022). The sculptures were made for the exhibition Stein hard mjelk / Rock hard milk at
@kunstnerforbundet in Oslo, 2022. Photo by Kunstdok
@istvan_virag
3. Ragnhilds art and reading at Organized Freedom, Coast 2019. About the political and artist-run art scene in Norway. Pix by
@kobieshmobie
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