Adrift (2022) - Photo Installation

Adrift (originally a video installation) tries to capture some of the claustrophobic and dramatic feeling that we can all experience at times, a feeling of drifting away without control. This feeling can arise when we are faced with the changes that take place in a human being, such as in the transition from adolescence to adulthood, or the changes we must face collectively, such as climate change and migration.

The photographs on Spuntveggen in Moss (2020).

The photographs on Spuntveggen in Moss are taken from the video work Adrift (2020). The train to Bane Nor will run along these rails in the future and I imagined how to see the film windows from the train windows as three small films.

I imagine the speed that on the train will mean that the 9 routes in different places could be experienced as 3 small films, small excerpts from the video work Adrift. The photographs illustrate film routes, as one remembers it from the older analogue films where routes one after the other together give the movements one sees in the film. Since the train will go both ways, the films will also have different endings, whether the young people come up out of the water or sink, whether they come floating towards the camera or floating away from the camera.

I saw Spuntveggen in Moss as part of the whole with the containers on the quay and the sea that extends behind them and wants the work to be so simple that it is open to different interpretations, whether it can give associations to feelings related specifically to changes of climate and migration, but just as often related to thoughts about being alienated in a new country or homeland. Or just the changes that happen in a human being, in the transition from adolescence to adulthood. 

The work on Spuntveggen was taken down in November 2020, but has received support from KORO and will be built permanently in a new location in Moss in the spring of 2022.

The photographs on the old brewery in Møllebyen in Moss (2022).

Mounted by Alf Thomas Ollett and Pawel Stypula. Photodocumentation by Tor Simen Ulstein. Assistants: Ingvild Mjøen Sausjord, Filip Skorgenes and Gustav Thiis-Evensen.

Both installations made with support from KORO and Moss Municipality.