Velkommen til Natalie Eliassens første soloutstilling, “Swells” i Salongen!
Utstillingen vil vise flere video verk, tekstile skulpturer og glitrende masker.
Swells = svulmer, mange små bølger svulmer sammen til en større bølge, klitoris svulmer opp, følelser svulmer opp.
Åpning fredag 27. august klokken 1900 – 2100 – Velkommen!
BIO
Natalie Seifert Eliassen (born 1993) is an artist from Oslo, Norway. Natalie graduated from the Art School in Stavanger in 2016 and received a BFA from the Academy of Fine Art, Bergen in 2019. In 2021, she started her MFA at the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Arts, Helsinki, in the Time and Space Art Department. She has exhibited her work at Female Artistic Experiments Norway at Atelier Nord, Oslo (2019) and in several performance events in Oslo and Bergen.
Natalie works with masks, costumes, performances, installations, sound and videos. Her artistic work was featured in the photo magazine SJÅ issue #2 ROM (2020). Lately, Natalie has been doing a lot of collaborations, often involving costume design, with artists, filmmakers, contemporary dancers and musicians, to mention a few: artist Agnete Tangrand, her sister and filmmaker Franciska Eliassen, musician Ferdinand Bergstrøm, video artist David Alrek, and contemporary dancer Ine Therese Hogstad. Natalie has received grants from Fritt Ord and FriFond to make an art documentary about Norwegian escorts (2019). She has organized several outdoor performances and in parallel with her art practice. Natalie is also a sailing instructor and captain of her own sailboat.
Artist Statement
I sew colorful masks with shiny fabrics, lingerie, pearls and sequins. The materials represent an escape from reality through alternative, dreamlike, and sparkling universes, where most of our taboos are accepted. The masks that I create reflect the psychological roles we take on and off every day.
My costume performances develop from what affects me right now, psychological and sociological topics I want to research. Most of these topics are taboos. Such as breakups, dating, the inner clitoris, sex work, madness and anything that does not adhere to moral values and norms of the society. My goal is to make society more open and inclusive.
Often, I work in a journalistic fashion in the initial phase of my projects. I interview people and sometimes use the info I get directly in the artistic result, while other times this material remains as my research. To make my masks and costumes become alive I use them in performances, dance and films.
In my witch performance, My Nature is Too Much, which was filmed in 2019, the costumes were influenced by the extravagant clothing I used to wear to get as much attention as possible during a manic episode. The choreography was inspired by “trembling therapy” where you shake out your emotions and find your inner wild monster.
Åpningstider:
Fredag 27. august 2021 klokken 19.00 – 21.00
Lørdag 28. august 2021 klokken 12.00 – 16.00
Søndag 29. august 2021 klokken 12.00 – 16.00