{"id":484,"date":"2020-08-31T19:43:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T17:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kunstibevegelse.no\/?page_id=484"},"modified":"2021-02-02T17:40:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T16:40:44","slug":"serina-erfjord","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kunstibevegelse.no\/en\/artists\/serina-erfjord\/","title":{"rendered":"Serina Erfjord"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sometimes you have to search a while for one of Serina Erfjord’s artworks. I know it should be here, but where is it, really? Then it suddenly appears, initially perhaps through a small gesture, a distraction somewhere in the far corner of your eye. A hole, a rotating protrusion, a runny stain held in place by the balance between mass and centrifugal force. Discovered, as if by chance, because with Serina Erfjord’s works we are often faced with a very low-key artistic expression \u2013 except when sound is involved. The mould growing up the wall from a corner of the room is not what you think. It is Erfjord’s site-specific drawing that occupies the space where two walls meet; static, but potentially moving in its expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas you <\/em>shudder at the sight of the skin that forms on boiling milk, Serina Erfjord preserves it, like something precious. She speaks enthusiastically about its amazing material properties: semi-transparent, extremely fragile, but also so incredibly stable once dry. Materials are an important subject for Erfjord, especially those which seem least usable; the small, almost unremarkable and understated objects, ones that are practically unnoticeable. A frost spot on a wall, Cold Stain<\/em>, reveals nothing about the cleverness of the technical thinking behind it when observed close-up. While it slowly moves and moults, it also moves us, <\/em>on a mental level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A window pane trembles almost imperceptibly. The viewer recognizes their own reflection, but everything bulges under their gaze, like a window in the wind. “Lucky coincidences” is what Serina Erfjord calls the things that pop up as ideas. “Imagine a window duvet,” she thinks, and suddenly she is on to something that moves her forward, to do research and more testing. The difficult animates her; it MUST be a little challenging. This is why she cast a window in clear silicone. Where is the fragile balance between solid and liquid, before it bursts? There is always a danger that it will not work; it is unpredictable. Like life itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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