Ingrid Eggen, Knoxs # 7, 2017.
Ingrid Eggen: Knex, Knax, Knoxs, Virvx and Handl
The Norwegian artist Ingrid Eggen is the first solo exhibitor when Fotografihuset opens its pilot program at Sukkerbiten in Oslo on the 20th of August.
Eggen shows the outdoor exhibition Knex, Knax, Knoxs, Virvx and Handl (2017–2020). The exhibition consists of photographs depicting bodies, hands and faces that in small facts and distorted gestures create a sculptural, almost architectural expression, or something resembling a sign language based on an unknown alphabet. At Sukkerbiten, the audience can experience these ambivalent photographs with the city as a background. The exhibition is curated by Jonas Ekeberg.
Ingrid Eggen, Virvx #3, 2018.
Ingrid Eggen (b. 1979) is a graduate of the Oslo Academy of the Arts, Konstfack in Stockholm, and Akademin Valand in Gothenburg. She works mainly with analog color photography and video, and in recent years has started experimenting with sculpture. Eggen has exhibited at institutions such as Melk, Oslo Kunstforening, Kunstnerforbundet, Fotogalleriet, 1857, Haugar Vestfold kunstmuseum, Lillehammer kunstmuseum, Norway, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City and Ulterior Gallery, New York. She was purchased by the National Museum this spring. The egg is relevant in the exhibition New Visions – The Henie Onstad Triennale for Photography and New Media at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter until 13.9.20.
Exhibition period 20th of August – 27th of September 2020.