Temautstilling 2023, Time will tell, she already does
Time will tell, she already does
Norske Kunsthåndverkere’s Temautstillingen 2023
Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway
Temautstillingen 2023 is curated by Daniela Ramos Arias and Mathijs van Geest. It is organised by Norske Kunsthåndverkere in collaboration with Hordaland Kunstsenter. Temautstillingen is a yearly exhibition that seeks to challenge established norms of curating and mediating material-based art. Patricia Belli, Madihe Gharibi, and Siv Stølda have been the main invited artists for temautstilling 2023.
Carry Across: Installation in two chapters
September-November 2023
Vitrine built by Fergus Tibbs
Carry Across was presented in two chapters. The first chapter focused on the process of translating Kalpourgan to Norway, while the second chapter offered a personal reflection on the artist’s translation of Kalpourgan into her own world.
Photo credit: Hordaland Kunstsenter
Carry Across, Chapter One
6 Digital photos on lustre and sand, 30 x 40 cm
Video: 10:30 minutes, looped
1-channel audio, 2:25 min, looped
Handmade Broken pottery, in its original form 20 x 20 x 30 cm
In collaboration with Sajad Abadi
Contributions by Atiye Habibi, Hanie Shoja and Alale Amiri.
In Carry Across Madihe Gharibi works in dialogue with women potters in the village of Kalpourgan in Iran. Kalpourgan is a women-led village located in the Sistan and Baluchistan province, in the southeastern region of Iran, renowned as a living pottery museum. The tradition of pottery in Kalpourgan dates back 7000 years, and women still create pottery out of dust and mud, using only their hands, employing the same techniques handed down by their ancestors. Through the art of pottery, these women have achieved financial independence within a male-dominated society.
In August 2023 some artifacts from Kalpourgan were carried across to be shown in Bergen. What is lost by the translation of such a cultural phenomenon, and what is this loss replaced by? In Time will tell, she already does, Madihe Gharibi explores the passing on of knowledge and the important different aspects of translation, either contextual, cultural or personal.
Stilla In Carry Across
As part of the project, Madihe Gharibi and Sanne Frostensson did the event Stilla at Hordaland Kunstsenter. On Sunday 29th October, during the art centre’s opening hours, they turned the gallery space into a silent space.
Stilla is a practice of silence in an artistic context. The project started by Sanne in the medieval building Nonneseter klosterkapell in Bergen in 2021. To develop the project and explore silence in an artistic context in a more direct way, Stilla move from Nonneseter to a few gallery spaces in collaboration with others. The core question of Carry Across is also what they explored by moving Stilla from Nonneseter to Hordaland Kunstsenter: “What is lost by the translation and what is this loss replaced by?”
*The carpets are the contributions from Stilla project.
Photo Credit: Sanne Frostensson and Madihe Gharibi
