I skjæringspunktet mellom skulptur og billedkunst utnytter jeg porselenets egenskaper til å ta vare på et minne fra demokrati protesten i HongKong. Blanke Post-it-lapper som et stille ekko fra et avsluttet kapittel. Skulpturen inneholder 999 hyllester til mennesker som har gitt sin frihet i kampen for ytringsfrihet. På Kantonesisk uttales 999 som: “gau, gau, gau”, - som oversatt blir: “å kjempe mot”. 999 er også nødnummeret i Hong Kong.
Distressed Silence trekker forbindelsen mellom en munn som har sluttet å bevege seg,- til tekster som ikke skrives lenger. Resultatet er tapt ytringsfrihet, stillhet, og blanke ark.
Ingjerd Ytterdal, Distressed Silence, porselen, 2022
Funnet objekt: Blabber Mouth radio, Made in HongKong (1985 )
“It is the people walking around that creates text, this again creates the meaning of a space”, Michel De Certeau.
This series is a result of repetitive walks examining the streets of Hong Kong and collecting evidence of existence.
“Sculpture-paintings”
Traces of history and fragments of memories juxtaposed in a new reality, with an uncertain future
This work is exploring color and materiality utilizing the process of chance. Made in HongKong and reflecting on memory and identity. The chinese word yugen means hidden reality or mystery
Site spesific series examining the relationship between the body, nature and culture
Transcultural Collaboration
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Wishes are priceless and we pay them off with our disappointments, this abyss of desire drag us down, waiting for heavenly fulfilment only to realise they are fulfilments of emptiness. We are all victims running around this system forest of commodity, feeding our wants and needs associated with the luring angles of advertisements. We pray and become the prey. (Leonard Kai Fung)
Immersive installation critiquing the worlds mass consumption
Installation at Ming Contemporary Museum, Shanghai 2018
A duration performance commenting on our time, the spoken and unspoken agent in this machinery of greed and our own role within this system. A tribute to a Chinese migration worker who wrote poems at night but in the end committed suicide. The fragrant Tan Hua flower blooms once a year in the dark of the night and then dies at sunrise
Post-text tematiserer mistet ytringsfrihet gjennom et performativt kalligrafi rituale. Tidspunkt for performance er 25.2.2024 kl. 14.
(Post-text tar utgangspunkt i Echoes of Clay, et arbeide fra 2023 som med sine 999 Post-it porselens lapper hedret aktivistene som kjempet for sin ytringsfrihet i Hongkong i 2019)