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Vuoiŋŋastat / Breath

Hilde Skancke Pedersen - Festival exhibitioner


Festival week at the Gallery, Arktisk kultursenter
Opening Thursday 11 nov 18:00-19:30
12, 13 and 14 November 12:00-18:00
Meet the artist Saturday 14:00


OPENING THURSDAY 11 NOVEMBER

In connection with DanseFestival Barents festival opening Vuoiŋŋastat / Åndedrag, Gula wants to make mearramárrat. We encourage those who have a gait / cardigan to put it on and join the opening and the rest of the week. Let the cardigan edge swing - and make a little upset sea / sea soda / # mearramárrat. See the event on Facebook here.

During the opening, "Fragments - Excerpts from Swans in Stone" by Stellaris DansTeater will be performed
Choreography: Solveig Leinan-Hermo
Dancers: Ekaterina Nikitina, Eivind Linn and Tonje Aas Molnes
Music / yoik: Halvdan Nedrejord

The exhibition is free, but any donations to DanseFestival Barents via VIPPS will be much appreciated Vipps # 117954 or search for DanseFestival Barents in the app, or via PayPal.

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The main theme of the exhibition is culture, nature and way of life in today's Sápmi. The theme manifests itself in figurative expressions in some works, and in more abstract expressions in others. The consistent, subtle message of protection of vulnerable areas here and in the rest of the world can be felt in most of the works in the exhibition.

The artist shows works inspired by nature in the north, works that reflect people's careful use of and sustainable activity in nature here in the north, both in terms of traditional use, and today's securing of road slopes and other more cautious interventions in nature, set against exploitation of nature and sea and land areas.

An installation made of found material such as wooden poles, ropes and textiles is inspired by Sea Sámi structures used to dry fishing nets and fish. The title of this installation is Čiehká - Hide, and may also address vulnerability and the urge to seek refuge from the outside world.

The material plant Magic carpet which consists of empty blister packs from the pharmaceutical industry. Magic carpet can be considered as a cool compilation of medical waste, but also with an underlying transfer value to topics such as suffering, care, coercion, healing, epidemics, environmental pollution, and reuse, in this case the assembly of small waste elements into a larger , meaningful whole. The artist often works in mixed media, also in this exhibition, and she uses recycled materials in several works. In the exhibition, she shows many small paintings / collages made on used packaging.

The Áhkut series consists of 7 gouaches in size 150 x 125. The motif is older traditional women from inner Finnmark, those who wear a cardigan for everyday use, often in combination with western outerwear. The women radiate strength, toughness and pride. In Hammerfest, the pictures are shown on the wall.

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    Photo: Andreas Daugstad

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About Hilde Skancke Pedersen
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Hilde was born and raised in Hammerfest, and lives in Kautokeino. After graduating from the Oslo Academy of the Arts in the late 1970s, she worked as a scenographer and costume designer, and as a visual artist. She is also educated at the Authors' Study 1 and 2 at the University of Tromsø. She has had a number of solo exhibitions, and has participated in many group exhibitions at home and abroad. Hilde has exhibited at the Modena Museum in Sweden and at the Art Museum in Murmansk. The Henie Onstad Museum showed a commissioned work for the exhibition Nils-Aslak Valkeapää / Áillohaš in 2020 - 2021, a replica of a work of art she made for Áillohaš's poetry concert in 1991. In the autumn of 2020, she delivered two large works of art that she was invited to create in the newly built Alta care center. In 2021, she showed her largest solo exhibition to date at the Sami Center for Contemporary Art in Karasjok. In 2022, she will participate in the opening exhibition of the new National Museum of Art in Oslo. She is invited to exhibit at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022 - 2023 in India.

Both as a visual artist and as a designer for stage and film and she is influenced by nature, environment, culture in her surroundings, not least by impulses from the Sami. She is an artist partner in the artist collective Dáiddadallu which is based in Kautokeino. Hilde is concerned with the environmental issue, and works a lot with recycled materials in her works.

The decorations for the plenary hall and foyer in the Sami Parliament are considered her main works. As a curator and purchasing consultant, she has worked with art for public spaces and museums. Hilde also works with performance. Among other things, she has shown a solo performance in New York in the spring of 2015. She has held many positions in Sami and Norwegian artist organizations, and has been co-curator and producer for major art projects, including as an art producer for the traveling exhibition Áigemátki (2017 - 2019) and Sámi Dáiddafestivála - Sami Art Festival in Alta 2019, both for Sami Artists' Association SDS, of which she is a member.