“A Promise of Gravel”
Johanna Nordin and Marja Knape
21 June → 13 July 2013
Measuring distance through different time frames: the traveled, and the digital and investigating potential existence of memory in inanimate things; A Promise of Gravel might best be described as a thinking by doing investigation of two groups of found places/objects.
The project is a twin exhibition set up with West Space and Temporära Konsthallen, Stockholm, (SE) and includes two assemblages of found rocks and an 8 hour continuous time difference.
Swedish artist Johanna Nordin works collaboratively and as a solo practitioner over a range of projects and media. Her individual work presents a poetic and conceptual game played with ephemeral and every day materials. These found objects and images are arranged to create works that invites the viewer to interpretation as much as they reject it, by insisting on their status as real things- not signs or symbols.
Marja Knape is based in Stockholm and Gothenburgh. Marjas work evinces a faschination with intangible materials and the complexity of the natural world. Her sculptures, videos and installations take experimental processes as a point of departure – invesigations into the transformative properties of elements such as heat, water and light. Marjas works conjure a sense of mystery, a suspension of disbelief in which magic is a kind of knowing and illusions are posited as real.