Øye Blikk

The title of the exhibition is Øye Blikk and the group has been working with the theme “see and be seen” as well as the anxiety and fascination towards being surveilled.

Their statement: “The artist group Dynamo was founded during May of 2008. Today the group consists of six Swedish and Norwegian artists. who all have in common that they in one way or the other work with artistic practices that somehow include glass as material.”

Dynamo wish for every exhibition to be a continuation of the former, a read thread constantly taking shape, based on feedback from the audience.

For Dynamos first exhibition 0:1 at NORSU Gallery in Helsinki 2009, the theme was communication. During the exhibition they asked the audience to write a word using magnetic letters in a wall, inspiring their next exhibition taking place in Berlin during 2010.

As well as taking a point of entry from the words they received, Dynamo chose to link each new piece of work to a carry-on suitcase. So with 6 new words and 6 old carry-ons, the members of Dynamo made 6 works for the exhibition Carry On 0:2, which opened at New Glass Art & Photography in Berlin during the month of January 2010. Later the exhibition was presented at Galleri Format, and thus Dynamo exhibited in Norway for the first with Carry On 0:3 in 2010.

Now it is Bergen and S12s turn, and Dynamo will be showing a brand new exhibition. The title is Øye Blikk, and they have been working on the theme “see and be seen”, as well as the anxiety and fascination over being surveilled. The entry point comes from the words they received from audiences in Berlin and Oslo, which culminated into the theme. The surveillance aspect for a long time was leading the process and fascination. Eye Sight also nods at Dynamo’s working process. There are few crafts where communication is so defining as it is within blowing glass. The same goes for time! One has barely a moment to blow and shape the glass before the heat disappears and with it the softness of the glass. The time aspect is therefore crucial to each decision regarding shape and design.

It is also the time aspect which makes glassblowing such an intense experience for the audience and glassblower alike. It happens only here, right now, in this moment!

For more you can check out attached CVs and www.dynamoglass.org

Dynamo consists of: Anna Roger, Tuva Gonsholt, Ina Kristine Hove, Kjersti Johannessen, Lene Lunde and Louise Olsson.