Solveig Lønseth (NO)
Solveig Lønseth works with installation, sculpture and photography and is educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo (KHIO). Conceptual reflections about sunlight and daylight form the core of Lønseth's practice, including observations and manifestations of interaction between light and darkness, outside and inside, body and technology, architecture, and nature, the constant and the ephemeral.
ATTERLJOS is a new site-specific, sculptural work developed for Tårup Dark Sky. ATTERLJOS is a relocated lamp; carefully dismantled from the ceiling in Lønseth`s family farm in Norway, reconditioned from electric to analogue so that it once again can carry candlelight. It is reassembled, installed hanging low, in the barn of another family farm - Nordholt gård, which is the location of Kunstrum Fyn. The lamp will be the only indoors source of light in room it is installed.
The work`s intention is to contribute to a glimpse of everyday miracle for the visitor – something to notice as recognizable, and at the same time experienced as an added element on situ. In addition to being reestablished for candlelight, the lamp’s original glass is replaced with custom shaped and fused glass by the artist.
Atterljos refers to atterljom, as in reverberation or echo. It is, by the ending -ljos (light) the light, rather than the sound, that gives the situational resonance. Beyond the gesture of physical replacement and the candlelight, the title points to the given fact that the work defines the space that houses it.
It is the artist`s vision to meet every visitor – and that the work just in coexistence with human presence, can reveal itself as a contemplative place. The work has a potential to work on several levels; scientifically and historically, as well as on a poetic or a metaphoric level; First through the discovery of the lamp and its light, then through the stories it carries with its radiance and the glare of its surroundings.
