Ingeborg Elieson

i FLOKK

11 November - 19 December 2021

Using different materials such as wood, metal, and stone, Elieson creates sculptural objects with a focus on form and materiality. Her practice revolves around the fine-tuned balance between nature and culture. She works with a shift in balance both as a theme and as a physical starting point in the objects she creates, where she experiments with endurance, weight, and mobility. The merging of the organic and the geometric - in the transition from one material to another is something you often see in her works. The objects are Hybrids - manufactured in a combination of things that already exist in nature and in a human cycle. Often the recognizable is deconstructed and appears as fragments of the surroundings.

In the exhibition i FLOKK Elieson presents a series of sculptures installed on plinths and walls. The artist plays with the idea of looking into the future by investigating topics such as relationships, communication, biology, and the environment. Various formations are formed through visual means such as distance, size, shape, and direction. As a group of individuals in relation to each other, the works appear over an area, in the form of a series, or in a cluster. By combining elements such as plants, body and man-made objects, the artist creates her own universe. The different materials and color combinations contribute to the complex expression.

Ingeborg Elieson (b. 1983, Fredrikstad, Norway) lives and works in Fredrikstad. She graduated in 2012 with a master’s degree from Oslo National Academy of the Arts and received a Scholarship from the Norwegian Association for Arts and Crafts for her graduation exhibition. Elieson has held separate exhibitions in Kunstnerforbundet and Gallery Kraft and participated in several curated exhibitions such as Aftermath of Art Jewelry (Vigeland Museum), the Annual Exhibition (Oslo, Bergen, Fredrikstad, Trondheim) Talente (Munich), Collect (London), Norwegian Presence (Milano Design week) and What Wood Would (Nordenfjeldske kunstindustrimuseum).