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Take your TIME. Photo: Wil Lee-Wright - 2/18
Beret Aksnes, detail of "Pi - speilbilde" (1999). Photo: Wil Lee-Wright - 3/18
Haniwa (Yayoi period, Japan) + Richard Notkin "Cube Skull Teapot" 1985. Photo: Freia Beer - 4/18
Take your TIME. Photo: Wil Lee-Wright - 5/18
Thomas Gardner, table clock (1760) + Den kgl porcelainsfabrik, "Night and Day" (1781-1791). Photo: Wil Lee-Wright - 6/18
Maria Bang Espersen, "Things Change" (2015). Photo: Wil Lee-Wright - 7/18
Målfridur Adalsteinsdottir, detail of "Pantheon" (2013). Photo: Wil Lee-Wright - 8/18
Nanna Melland, "687 Years" (2006-2008) Nanna Melland - 9/18
Take your TIME. Photo: Wil Lee-Wright - 10/18
Pocket watches (1600-1900) + Denis Diderot, "Encyclopedie" (1762). Photo: Wil Lee-Wright - 11/18
Guttorm Nielsen, puddereske (1914) + Runa Vethal Stølen, "Fractus" (2012). Photo: Freia Beer. - 12/18
Eirik Gjedrem, "Virvel nr. 1" (1997). Photo: Wil Lee-Wright - 13/18
Hanne Friis, "Nye ornamenter I" (2017). Photo: Wil Lee-Wright Hanne Friis/BONO 2020 - 14/18
Take your TIME. Photo: Wil Lee-Wright - 15/18
Veslemøy Lilleengen, "Heimstavn" (2019). Photo: Wil Lee-Wright - 16/18
Toril Bonsaksen, "Blackstar" (2016). Photo: Wil Lee-Wright - 17/18
Necklace made of human hair (ca. 1850). Photo: Freia Beer - 18/18
Ann Kristin Aas, "Memorial Portraits" (2013). Foto: NKIM
Abstract of paper proposal submitted to The Second International Temporal Belongings Conference
Welcome to this exhibition – precisely now. Please enter Take your TIME, an anachronistic cabinet of curiosities. Let me show you an eccentric selection of artworks and artefacts that in various ways, and in dialogue with each other, may tell us something about the phenomenon of time.
When these haniwa, Japanese ceremonial figurines made 2000 years ago to celebrate fertility, meet jewellery artist Nanna Melland’s piece 687 Years (2008) – a necklace made of hundreds of copper IUD’s (prevention spirals) – stories about lived lives, interrupted timelines, pain, love and the body as a time-site, are thrown out for us to ponder.
Things Change (2015) by Maria Bang Espersen, a hand blown glass vase encapsulating a sharp stone in the thin glass wall, reminds the viewer about future’s uncertainty. The material tension is constantly under pressure, and cracks will gradually appear – or the object will suddenly explode into hundreds of shards. No one knows when. The work is durational, and a piece of irony in a museum collection. Then have a look at these bracelets made of human hair (1850’s), perhaps from a lost loved one, just to make them travel in time with you.
