PROCESS

Saturday, April 12, 2025 12:00 PM 12:00
Sunday, May 4, 2025 5:00 PM 17:00

Adresse og sted for utstillingen: Fotogalleriet 34 Møllergata Oslo, Oslo, 0179 Norway (map)

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LARA OKAFOR, AYESHA JORDAN, HAWEYA JAMA, MARIE COLE, AYAN ABDI, JAVON BENNETT, WALDANE WALKER

EXHIBITION FROM 21.03.2025 TO 04.05.2025

PROCESS is an exhibition in development by Marie Cole, Haweya Jama, Ayesha Jordan, og Lara Okafor. It is an inquiry into creative processes and how they encourage critical thinking, communal growth, exchange, and defiance; specifically, from Afrodiasporic perspectives. Their aim to co-create an ever-evolving environment that can be influenced by the numerous bodies and ideas that engage with the space.

The six weeks are divided into three chapters: cleanse, cultivate, og harvest. These three seasons are in conversation with plant cycles. They also describe the PROCESS we hope participants will engage in during the exhibition period. Artists Ayan Abdi, Javon Bennett, og Waldane Walker will use the gallery as an open studio, allowing their practices to evolve in dialogue with the public.

We are living in a time where we need more than just production for consumption. The institutional gallery space will therefore be opened up for use as an open studio by three Afrodiasporic artists whose practices involve working in a communal and process-oriented way. These artists will each have an intervention during the course of the last two seasons (cultivate og harvest).

There will be various publicly-engaged workshops, events, and performances. Our aim is to transform the gallery into a space that feels like a “cup of hibiscus tea on a cold winter day”. There will be opportunities for community-oriented artists and collectives to have events in the space.

OM FOTOGALLERIET

Stiftelsen Fotogalleriet er Nordens lengst opererende institusjon og det eneste kunstgalleriet i Norge med fokus på kunstfotografi. Stiftelsen er opptatt av å problematisere fotokunst og visuell kulturproduksjon og kritisk bidra til diskurser rundt dagens bildeproduksjon. I kjernen av sitt mandat arbeider stiftelsen for en mer balansert representasjon i kunstfeltet og samfunnet gjennom samarbeid med sentrale, samfunnsengasjerte organisasjoner.

Throughout the institution’s history, Fotogalleriet has actively aimed to be a stepping stone for young artists and a platform for mediating new ideas from the international and local fields. It hosted the first solo exhibitions of artists Ida Ekeblad, Ann Christine Eek, Matias Faldbakken, Eline Mugaas, Dag Alveng, and Maria Pasenau in Norway.

Institusjonen fokuserer på nye og radikale produksjoner innenfor og utenfor hovedlokalene i Møllergata 34, og utfordrer eksisterende ideer om kunst og dens samfunnsansvar.