Exhibition Details

Richard Long walks for hours back and forth across a field. The line in the grass is the imprint of the soles of his feet as they press against the ground. Rhythm, the landscape, and impressions are repeated, but at the same time, the walker discovers new things. The round-trip on the path is a circular movement. The imprint in the grass eventually disappears, but the individual steps are experiences had through the act of walking, turning, walking back, and turning again. Moving from one place to another becomes embedded in the body like a material memory. It engrains itself at the same time as part of it leaks into the next haptic act.
We start to walk due to longing or necessity. We cross boundaries and move in time, geography, and experience. We leave. We return. A movement can be the action of an individual but also of a community seeking change.
The exhibition 'Lines Made by Walking' presents works made with clay and animal skin. In a way, these materials represent feet and ground, legs and path, skin, and earth. The human in the landscape. The materials are experienced as stuff in their own right, but also as invisible components of bodies and their environment—a part of us.
The exhibition is supported by Arts Council Norway, KiN Regional Project Support, and Kunsthåndverkernes Fond.