MY ARCHEOLOGICAL LAYER  08/26

During my artist residency on Træna/ NO, I visited Kirkehelleren, a cave on the neighbouring island of Sanna. The cave was shaped by geological forces and bears traces of human activity over time. In the cave, I created a seven-metre-long frottage using a roll of paper and installed it on site. Through this process, I created a temporary archaeological layer of my presence, which I later removed. The work brings different time scales together; the long geological and archaeological history of the site and the brief duration of my own intervention.

TRANSLATION OF A ROCK

A stone becomes the starting point for a three-dimensional translation. A large sheet of paper is wrapped around its surface, tracing the areas where paper and stone meet. Once the paper is removed, it is folded along these traces to recreate the stone’s form in space.

I am interested in how a place can be experienced through its materials. Instead of simply copying the stone, I explore its shape through touch, friction and movement. The solid stone is transformed into a fragile paper form, shifting between surface and volume, original and trace. Rather than depicting the landscape, the work offers a way of physically experiencing it.




The artist residency in Træna was funded by Culture Moves Europe, a mobility programme by Goethe Institut and Nordland fylkeskommune.