Line Anda Dalmar 
Per Kristian Nygård
Line Anda Dalmar (NO) and Per Kristian Nygård (NO)
October 2017
In Volume 3 of Find Your Eyes, Line Anda Dalmar and Per Kristian Nygård will create site-specific projects at Sølyst. This Volume is co-curated by Ingeborg Kvame.
The island of Sølyst is changing. The identity of the small and intimate neighborhood is transforming as an ongoing property development is sets its mark on the island. Find Your Eyes enlightens this transformation, creating a mysterious dream landscape behind the extant historical buildings and the projected condominiums of the future. Creating a parallel space to investigate these changes, Line Anda Dalmar and Per Kristian Nygård create work that projects societal issues onto the forest of Sølyst to explore our relationship with our environment and each other.
In Framing, Per Kristian Nygård will play with a traditional construction principle: a skeletal construction of a house. Built without machinery or construction aids, as opposed to many modern, luxurious buildings that prioritize profit and market aesthetics, Framing will take the human body into account in its construction. Framing will be situated close to the street, visible and conspicuous, yet not entirely out of place. Viewers will be able to enter Framing and return throughout the course of the exhibition to witness how the sculpture changes as nature creeps in over time and occupies the structure. Over time, the wood of the sculpture will slowly become warped, its structure will become overgrown. Eventually, if Framing remains untouched by development on the island, it will become part of the forest itself.
Line Anda Dalmar turns her focus to the forest itself. Trees are social beings. Through complex, connected root and fungus, they communicate with one another. Understanding the importance to study and understand nature’s ancient history, Skogsmonologer (Forest Monologues) aims to enhance and activate the forest by personifying the trees that live there. Dalmar is interested in the ways in which cultural history is often given more importance than natural history. During Skogsmonologer, Dalmar will connect the trees with voices, which will be activated with sensors. She has asked eight writers from diverse disciplines–from poetry to children’s books–to give selected trees a voice. Silent witnesses to the history and life of the island, the trees will tell their stories with the help of the artists. The forest will come alive as the trees make their voices heard.
Contributing Writers are Rune Belsvik, Heidi Anett Haugen, Markus Lantto, Ingunn Lygre, Guro Klyve Parr, Helge Torvund, Frank Tønnessen (Tønes) and Torhild Wardenær
Per Kristian Nygård
Per Kristian Nygård is born 1979 in Arendal, lives in Svartlamon and works in Trondheim at Lademoen Artist Studios. His site specific installations and sculptures exploring the intersection of architecture and ideology have been exhibited since then extensively. In recent years he has been part of an experimental housing project at Svartlamon in Trondheim, where 5 families have built their houses with their own hands, which they will later rent from the non-profit organization Svartlamon Boligstiftelse .
Line Anda Dalmar
Line Anda Dalmar (born.1983) is currently based in Stavanger and Trondheim. Her works are theme specific and project oriented, using a variety of media, such as video, photography, sound, sculpture and drawing. Dalmar is concerned with how time, distance and space affect us, which elements we remember and how they are preserved in our visual memory.
The works often reflect upon how we experience the nature around us and how we respond to its shape. In this context, the landscape is interesting considering what element one seeks to achieve a sense of belonging, attachment and identity.