Inger Lise Hansen

Date: 17.01.25 – 23.02.25
Location: Atelier Nord, Olaf Ryes plass 2 (entrance from Sofienberggata)

Please join us for the exhibition opening on Thursday, January 23rd, 2025, from 6:00 PM

DAM is a new video installation by Inger Lise Hansen that spans three projections and three screens. Using 16mm film, Super 8, and digital video, Hansen allows the camera to explore the sculptural and material qualities of the Kykkelsrud Dam on the Glomma river outside of Oslo, as well as the movements of the water it holds back. All the footage is filmed vertically and tightly cropped, so the dam itself is never revealed in its entirety. Time-lapse, slow motion, and long exposure techniques create shifting perceptions of time from shot to shot. The recordings span two years and include both drought and flood periods.

Born in 1963, Inger Lise Hansen works with experimental film and animation. She was educated at the University of East London, Central St. Martin’s College of Art and Design, and the San Francisco Art Institute. Hansen’s films have been shown at Tate Modern, the National Gallery in London, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, OK Linz, Malmö Konsthall, Rencontres Internationales at the Louvre Museum and HKW in Berlin, as well as the Rotterdam Film Festival and the Hiroshima Animation Festival.

A publication produced on the occasion of the exhibition features an essay on DAM by Mike Sperlinger and is available free of charge.

DAM is supported by Arts Council Norway, the Fund for Audio and Visual Artists, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, and Viken Filmsenter.