Behind the looking glass, in a storage room in an empty office space somewhere in Porsgrunn, torn entangled prints and matrices hover in the dark, giving off a fluorescent glow. The installation “Illegalskap” is part of my bachelor project “Rester av verden”
Sadly, I was unable to take part in the final exhibition at KHiO, so instead, I occupied these spaces, filling them with prints, installations and UV-light.
The world is coming apart, as are so many of us. My work reflects on the experience of entropy and the dissolvement of the structures we inhabit and embody.
Collecting pieces, tearing, building, printing and morphing them, all kinds of traces of my lived reality come together and fall apart. The world I move in is becoming denser with information, while the ability to process on a deeper level is becoming increasingly difficult. Like the force-feeding of ducks for the sake of fattening their livers, it seems we have been formed into unconscious reproducing consumers. I am now printing remains of the world. I use my disillusionment as the dissolution of a corrupt “normal”.
The value of the experiential emotional involvement, the ephemeral moment, the real-life meeting where our senses are rooted into space-time, cannot be overly stressed at this point in time. We need to connect. To our hearts, to nature, to each other.
It is devastating to witness and experience the effects that isolation, fear and grief are having. But the destructions we are enmeshed in also give us a possibility for transformation. We also encompass the light. I shed a light with beautiful debris.
Sigvei Ringvold uses printmaking as a method for exploring the idea of interconnectedness, using chance as a part of the creative process and destruction as a factor.
She works in large formats, printing in layers, mixing different printmaking techniques. She also collaborates cross-disciplinary with musicians and performers, making sculptural installations and scenography.
She has exhibited in shows such as «Grafica Creativa 2019 – Hereafter» at the International Print Triennial in Jyväskylä, Finland, and «Print Matters – Contemporary Constituencies of Print» at Grafiska Sällskapet and Ålgården in Sweden.
As artist-curator she set up the group exhibition “Compose Decompose Pause” at Kunsthall Grenland in 2020. She is currently enrolled in the MA program in Print at KHiO, and has newly become a member of Norske Grafikere.