Anita Lykke Hanch-Hansen

Retellings

13 Januar - 6 March 2022

Anita Lykke Hanch-Hansen experiments with different approaches to the ceramic material and combines nature directly with clay. Thematically, she examines cyclical change processes associated with growth, transformation, and decay.

The project "Retellings" is based on different pieces of rocks and minerals that she has found at Fuglevikstranda in Dilling in Rygge municipality, where she also lives and works. The materials have been collected daily and processed in her studio. By combining the clay material, both liquid and plastic form, with the various minerals, she investigates the qualities that occur when burned at temperatures from 1000 - 1300 degrees. The research consists of transitions from one stage to another, exposing the rocks and their contents to an external force, similar to the way they have been changed in the earth’s crust for millions of years. What seems constant and eternal is reversed to its original state, and the rocks become a reference to the past, present and future.

The study has been ongoing since the spring of 2020, and the works in the exhibition are excerpts from this period.

Anita Lykke Hanch-Hansen (b. 1971 in Sarpsborg) lives and works in Italy and on Norway`s southern coast. She completed her master`s degree in Medium and Material Based Art from the National Academy of fine Arts in 2015 and has since received several scholarships, including the Norwegian Arts Council`s work grant and production grant from the Ingrid Lindbäck Langaards Foundation. She has participated in several exhibitions at home and abroad, such as in Italy, France, Denmark, England, Romania, Estonia and Norway. Her work has been purchased by several collectors, and National Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Trondheim, and Fredrikstad municipality.