MINNEARBEID (MEMORY WORK), exhibition Kari Ann Lending Kleiveland
”My memories are in my body, archived in my skin, my cells, my senses. I try to remember. I see the colors. I carry paintings in my body.
My body remembers like the canvas remembers me painting a line upon it. Although the strokes, the marks, the lines, may fade with time, the actions and experiences will still be found in the history of the material - the body of the painting, the body of me. Eventually there will be layers of experiences, of movements. I explore how the medium of painting can be a tool for both recalling and recording memories, interested in how the act of painting can be a performance of remembrance. The painting itself becomes a document of memories and a materialization of the ephemeral.”
Kari Ann Lending Kleiveland (b. 1993 NO) is the founder of Studio K. She is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in dance, choreography and visual arts. She completed her Master's degree the Art Academy in Bergen (KMD) in 2022, and completed her Bachelor's degree at the Art Academy in Trondheim (2020). Kari Ann was based at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki in the autumn of 2018 and at the Academy of the Arts in Reykjavik in the spring of 2019. She studied Art History in Paris through Gateway College (2014), and Visual Arts in the School of Art Stavanger (2014-2016). Her art has been shown at Tou Scene and Rogaland Kunstsenter in Stavanger, Galleri KiT in Trondheim, Tasku Gallery in Helsinki, Laugardalslaur in Reykjavik among others.
Photo: Hege Melkevig
Installation photos: Dan Skjæveland
