Warm welcome to Olga Krüssenberg’s exhibition Too close too far at Galleri Mejan, the Royal Institute of Art’s student gallery.
Vernissage: 27 October between 5 and 9 pm
Opening hours Galleri Mejan during the exhibition period Oct 28 – Nov 5:
28/10 12:00–17:00
29/10 12:00–17:00
30/10 10:00–12:00 (public exam)
31/10 12:00–18:00
1/11 12:00–18:00
2/11 12:00–20:00
3/11 12:00–20:00
4/11 12:00–17:00
5/11 12:00–17:00
Too close too far
On Svalbard, no trees grow, and the air is dry and cold. Some of the mountains are flat, while others have pointed peaks. In undulating forms, they stretch down towards the ground.
Turquoise glaciers pile up between some of the mountains. They look like lava that has stopped in motion on the way down to the sea.
In the mountains, 60-million-year-old coal streaks run along the rocky walls, and everything outside is on the verge of collapse. Svalbard is a place of contrasts, full of contradictions. The landscape testifies both to a deep geological history and to a time that is running out.
The North Pole is also literally timeless, to this day it has no assigned time zone. To a certain degree the North Pole can be seen as the source of time itself, since the lines of longitude that define the time zones converge there. A stay at the North Pole is therefore like taking part in a synchronous time.
What we have considered to be stable and unchanging has suddenly turned out to be as volatile as ourselves. Let us try to think about what is happening to all of us right now, while surrounded by processes beyond our control that are reshaping the world as we have known it.
Text: Olga Krüssenberg
Foto: Christine Leuhusen
