Forging as opposed to forgetting
Drawing, collages and video of appearing and disappearing motives.
The two sides of making history.
History re-enact itself in the now. By every attempt to write history something is written out. The very act of archiving holds in itself the act of forging time passed.
As one perhaps have heard before, ’history is written by the ones who win the war’, but the scenario of war, and terrorist in retrospective becoming freedom-fighters or even the films of books burning in black and white; all this is more what we think the event of forging history deserve to look like. The process of archiving however takes places constantly, even in the unconsciousness of everyday life.
The flash from a camera that makes you unable to see who shot it from behind the blinding light A strange device to pull water-skiers on the surface of a artificial landscape. These are humane motives that I draw inspiration from.
Simen Engen Larsen (b. 83)
Educated from the Trondehim academy of arts and Listaháskóli
