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| Ylva OGLAND Traveling Oracle |
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| 2008, Oil on canvas 81.3x68.6cm |
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| Interview with Ylva Ogland |
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Q1
The subjects of your artworks are quite often related to your family.
However, it doesn't appear that you are simply transforming private issues into artworks. I wonder how you select subjects normally and address them to turn into artworks.
Rather than observing something objectively and visualize them, it appears to me that you receive matters from somebody which are the experiences of your parents or things you are interested in, and transform them into artworks after gazing at them. What do you think about this?
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| Snöfrid:
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| My name is Snöfrid, I have been asked by Ylva Ogland to answer these questions. I’m her twin sister and i live in the mirror world, I have same experiences as her but from a different perspective, from my view in the imaginary world, and I don’t paint so I’m free to speak about these things. We meet where fiction and reality becomes one, in the creation of situations that are connected to us and to the imagination and to the history and to the art history.
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| “The subjects of your artworks are quite often related to your family.”
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| Snöfrid:
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| Try through the little world to connect to and mirror the big world. And beyond that the imaginary world. As Oskar Ekdahl, one of the central characters in Ingmar Bergman’s film “Fanny and Alexander “, says “…My only talent, if you can call it that in my case, is that I love this little world inside the thick walls of this playhouse, and I'm fond of the people who work in this little world.
Outside is the big world, and sometimes the little world succeeds in reflecting the big one so that we understand it better …”
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| “However, it doesn't appear that you are simply transforming private issues into artworks.”
“I wonder how you select subjects normally and address them to turn into artworks. Rather than observing something objectively and visualize them, it appears to me that you receive matters from somebody which are the experiences of your parents or things you are interested in, and transform them into artworks after gazing at them. What do you think about this?”
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| Snöfrid:
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| Experiences serve as a ground where the very personal and subjective can be a reflection of any viewer’s experiences. What is coming and what has past and what is present. The relation between the real world and the art objects and what they are and what they are representing if they are representing.
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Q2
You make frequent reference to art history in your artworks. When you make the reference, you add your own interpretation to it. Do you think the following two procedures have the same quality: considering the way how things are in the real world; and considering art history as an artist?
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| Snöfrid:
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| Michael Foucault:In appearance, the locus is a simple one; a matter of pure reciprocity: we are looking out at us. A mere confrontation, eyes catching one another’s glance, direct looks superimposing themselves upon one another as they cross. And yet this slender line of reciprocal visibility embraces a whole complex network of uncertainties, exchanges and feints… But inversely, the painter’s gaze, addressed to the void confronting him outside the picture, accepts as many models as there are spectators; in this precise but neutral place, the observer and the observed take part in a ceaseless exchange.
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Q3
Some of your artworks deal with taboos, e.g. drug or homosexual. What are you trying to address with these artworks? What do you feel about the reaction of the viewers?
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| Snöfrid:
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What is memory?
What is respect?
Who is the one to judge the way of living a life?
Understanding and complexity.
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Q4
Could you please tell me about the exhibition of your new artworks including "Oracle"?
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| Snöfrid:
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"She Who Shows The Way Falling Asleep"
Where past is always present,
Where future is always present,
Where present is always present.
Where the imagination is as real as the reality.
Where the reaity is as imaginary as the imagination .
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Q5
Could you please tell me more about "TONDO".
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| Snöfrid:
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Self-portrait, a mirror image.
Grownup and not anymore a child.
Reflection of the present reality.
The reality in the mirror tkes place in the room where the Tondos are showed.
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6/May/2008 Interview through E-mail
SHUGOARTS
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