IMPERFECT GRAVITY

  • has held exhibitions at Nonneseter Kapell: Bergen (NO), Nye Bokboden: Bergen (NO), Kunstgarasjen: Bergen (NO), and Test Space, Spike Island: Bristol(UK), and been part of group exhibitions at Tegnerforbundet: Oslo, Standard (Oslo):Oslo (NO), Bergen Kunsthall: Bergen (NO), and PADA studios: Barreiro (PT).

    Devik works mainly with drawing, painting, and independent book making.

  • After completing her MA in Fine Arts at the University of Bergem, Haruka Fukao went on to complete an MA in visual anthropology at Tromsø University. The films she made during her studies has been shown in at several ethnographic film festivals internationally. Apart from her studies and work as a Japanese tutor, Fukao has also done artistic research for the artist collective Keiken.

    Fukao works between film, performance, and embroidery.

07th Aug -
28th Sep

Imperfect Gravity is an exhibition crystallised from a long-standing friendship dating back to the artists’ college days in the UK, between Norwegian artist Unn Devik and Japanese artist Fukao Haruka.

Departing from, and taking advantage of, their different cultural backgrounds, artistic skills, mediums, and, not least, languages, they have immersed themselves in each other’s cultures. From this starting point they have created a participative and interactive exhibition centred around a card game dubbed Imperfect Gravity. Motifs found within the game are then again materialised in different forms throughout the exhibition.

The exhibition is also, in a nutshell, a demonstration of how geographically distant cultures influence and enrich each other through a long history of exchange and mutual development.

Northing Space and the artists are kindly supported by Arts Council Norway and Bergen Municipality.

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