Forest Glass
& Fern Crystals
Andrea Grundt
Johns
Opening August 31st
18:00-20:00
Oslo Prosjektrom,
Platous gate 18
If we reduce a fern* to ashes, which we dissolve in
pure water, then allow the water to evaporate, we obtain lovely crystals that
have the form of a fern frond.
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
The great daydreamer is first bewildered by nature, then bewitched by
his own dreams – man’s fantasy can easily surpass nature’s, Gaston Bachelard writes in The Poetics of Space.
He speaks of a time long before our scientific world, a time when the borders
between scientific theories and vast daydreams were blurred.
How does nature bewilder and
bewitch the daydreamer of today? Are we still able to dream of fern ash turning
into crystals? Forest Glass & Fern Crystals is a re-enactment and investigation of the
fern's mystical past and our relation to nature in today’s world, through a
camera-less and sculptural photography.
Andrea Grundt
Johns (b. 1989, Oslo) holds a BFA in
Photography from Akademin Valand in 2015. Johns explores tactile and
phenomenological approaches to photography. Through this she seeks to disrupt a
visually saturated everyday and question the traditional understanding of
photography. As a result, her works often moves towards the empty, believing
emptiness to be full of potential. Trying to trigger the viewer’s imagination
and attention, she searches for new ways of seeing.
Her practice also
includes several collaborations and artist run publishing and exhibition
projects.
*fern: bregner
Opening hours:
August 31st –
September 17th
Thursdays: 15-19
Saturdays & Sundays: 12-16
Open by appointment: please contact the gallery or the artist.
Contact:
Oslo Prosjektrom
Platous gate 18
Phone: +47 993 22
597
osloprosjektrom@osloprosjektrom.no
For appointments,
contact the gallery or call +47 984 65 850.
