Ragnhild Aamås
In my work you’ll see sculpture, text, collage and sound. I have established a way of working and a body of work that particularly looks at the effects of language and the capture of the writing system. I base myself on poor, commercial and found materials. Since I developed «Echo Cleans the Mirror Sore» for Kunsthall Stavanger over their archive in 2015, I have worked with institutional archives on several occasions. Latest in a series of sonic microessays for Kunstnerforbundet in 2023. I’m attracted to an investigative form that branches into and interweaves written and visual materials.
Rather than using the default in the order we live under – the individual – I look to the ‘divid’, and let it stand for a dismembered kind of negative subject that searches for cracks to worry in. I’m currently learning more about the work of Italian artist Anne-Marie Sauzeau-Boetti, and Norwegian Kristina Bræin).
In addition to solo work, I’m part of the artist group infopsin, with Ayat Tuleubek, Ignas Krunglevicius og Istvan Virag. During 2014-2021 I was co-directing the artist run space Podium Oslo. I also write about art for moneys. And I’m freshly elected chair of the board at UKS (Unge Kunstneres Samfund / Young Artists’ Society.