HC Gilje (NO)

HC Gilje is a Norwegian artist who moves between installation, experimental video, live performance and set design.

Arching over his various projects is Gilje’s idea of “Conversations with Spaces”. For over a decade he has investigated different ways of transforming spaces using light, projection, sound and motion: ephemeral media that create temporary transformations of physical spaces, which in turn influences how we experience these spaces. 

Questions of how we live our lives through our bodies, how we place ourselves in time and space, how we relate to others and our environment, and how technology is deeply entangled in the answers to these questions are an important context for the creation, and possibly appreciation and understanding, of this artist’s work.

I am interested in how motion passes through spaces, objects, bodies and landscapes. 

I am interested in how light interacts with physical structures. Light is only visible as manifestations in materials through reflection, refraction, and shadows. Movement of light in a space affects the experience of time passing.(HC Gilje)

HC Gilje’s work has always revolved around different forms of improvisation, when working with a camera, in live performance, when creating material for experimental video and when working with spatial installations. For this the artist develops tools and devices that become instruments, mediators, probes, or interfaces that allow him to interact with or have a conversation with his surroundings.