SOMEWHERE A BRIGHT STAR BURNS
29. aug. – 7. sept.
Utstillingsåpning fredag 29. august kl. 18 – 21.
Performance på åpningskvelden.
Vises t.o.m. søndag 7. september.
Åpent alle dager kl. 12 – 17.
Gratis adgang.
SOMEWHERE A BRIGHT STAR BURNS
Underneath your feet, black sands glitter and crumble away. A purple mossy forest grows knotted gnarled branches that twist into the sky. Everything around you is alive – collapsing and mutating as houses grow roots and the moon falls from above.
Still, you endlessly and fervently search for the bright star. A spark of promise, a glimmer of hope amongst the hopelessness. Maybe one day you steal a glimpse of it through the twisted pines – that faraway dream, lonesomely burning above a serene, blue-yellow mountain.
Tamara MacArthur (They/Them, b.1994) is a Glasgow-based artist working in installation, performance, drawing and video.
Their practice inhabits and reaches around the edges of intimacy, in an attempt to understand themes of longing, loneliness, memory and connection. They build worlds dripping in nostalgia. Traces of touch emphasise that everything has been lovingly and laboriously hand-made; their best effort.
To a backdrop of sentimental pop songs, they test what’s possible when we are present, together, in make-believe, because ‘it wouldn’t be make-believe if you believed in me’.
Tamara received their BA from Glasgow School of Art in 2017.
Solo exhibitions include ‘Wished On The Moon For More Than I Ever Knew’ at Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, Portugal (2022) and ‘Wish You Were Here’ at Govan Project Space, Glasgow, Scotland (2021).
Jack O’Flynn (He/Him, b.1993) is an Irish artist based in Bergen, Norway. His multi-disciplinary practice explores sculpture, installation, drawing, and animation, to create enveloping and intimate worlds of texture, form, image, and sound.
Exploring intertwined themes of enchantment, ecology, and ruination, Jack creates dream-like fables for a collapsing world, portals to another way of being.
Jack received his MA from the Academy of Art, University of Bergen (KMD) in 2023. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘The Archer never appeared again and the Dogs changed to moss’ at Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway (2023) and ‘The Palace of Humming Trees’ French St. Glasgow, Scotland (2021).
Curated by Ruby Eleftheriotis
Supported by Bergen Kommune, The Bet Low Trust, The European Union and Goethe Institute, Vestland Fylkeskommune, Nordic Artist Center Dale, Uillinn: West Cork Art Centre