Artist statement

In my artistic practice I am searching for a lifestyle in balance with nature focusing on built environment. I am playing with temporality of human interventions by building temporary installations with decomposing materials, such as snow. I arrange building workshops where I invite participants to collectively create the installations. The artworks can only be experienced on site during a specific time, and the process of making them in workshops is as important part of the art than the final artwork. My method is to borrow materials from nature and available sources of used materials. The natural materials are collected gently, and they can return to nature’s cycle by themselves. To find the materials, I take regular walks in my surroundings, and I transport them on foot.

My master project, Collective tent sauna, is a functional tent sauna that is self-made using thin tree trunks and branches, fibre rope, second hand sauna tent fabric and wooden boards. The sauna is about people experiencing multi-sensory and bodily sensations in a group that collectively works together to achieve the maximum pleasure in a respectful atmosphere. The sauna and its surroundings are meant to function as a meeting place for collective gatherings. I have sent an invitation for hosts to all of the KHiO students, and together we have created a program of different events happening at the sauna on the KHiO schoolyard by Akerselva during the master exhibition

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