Medvind.

Marie j.Engelsvold & Annemette Lichtenberg.

When you move with the wind, things feel lighter. You allow yourself to be guided; you are in a state of flow. You arrive in the present moment and let go of any need to know the destination. Things fall into place—almost by themselves. This is how the artistic process can feel. At times, you are fortunate enough to catch a strong tailwind, as if you are being gently pushed forward along a path already set.

This is the approach the two artists, Marie J. Engelsvold and Annemette Lichtenberg, take in this joint exhibition. It is a shared aspect of their respective practices: to move with an intuitive, chance-driven, and playful process, where materials and figures are carried along in an unknown direction.

Marie J. Engelsvold has developed a visual language built from diverse constructions. A wide range of materials and objects are combined and integrated into newly discovered relationships. Forms and colors take up space, particularly in sculpture and drawing, but also through photography, video, and performance. In Engelsvold’s work, we often encounter a sense of symmetry or pattern, creating a new aesthetic whole between the elements. Her visual language consists of materials such as wood, knitted rope, plastic, ceramics, plaster, concrete, textiles, cardboard, foam, natural objects, and all kinds of string—from ordinary twine to cables, chains, or hoses. Each element becomes a physical manifestation of a personal inner world—a wild universe seeking aesthetic balance.

In this exhibition, Annemette Lichtenberg presents her process through playful explorations of complementary combinations, expressed in countless smaller formats that come together as new wholes. Her works blend spontaneity with precise construction. Lichtenberg works with mixed media on paper, using acrylic, oil pastel, and collage. Each piece forms a collection of curious, whimsical species, as if scattered like seeds by the wind across her world. Flowers, plants with wings or thorns, insects, birds, animals, figures with and without antennae, beaks, tails, leaves, branches, grass—one being after another finds its way onto the paper, forming a narrative about the diversity of species.

There is something truly wonderful about moving with the wind, and seeing how fleeting impulses can take shape as images.