source: benedicteclementsen
Benedicte Clementsen (b.1986) is a visual artist, living and working in Bergen, Norway. With her base in time based mediums, she works with a wide range of mediums such as performance, video, sound and installation. Benedicte creates works for a various spectrum of places and tend to work context specific. May 2014 she finished her bachelor degree at Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Fine Art department. The graduate exhibition, “Sectioning Experience”, was held at Bergen Kjøtt from May 14th through May 19th. Benedicte has shown works solo, in group shows and at international events and festivals throughout her studies.
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source: performanceartbergenno
Benedicte is a visual artist, working multi disciplinary and often collaborative, with her base in performance and installation. Presently a student at the Fine Art department at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts, she has now shown her work in festivals and galleries nationally, and recently received her first invites to participate at professional international events, like the international festival “FEM” in Spain, December 2012. Benedicte was co-producer at the international performance art festival ”Never or Now” in Bergen in 2011 and is now a member of the board for PAB, Performance Art Bergen, supporting and promoting visual performance art and artists locally, nationally and abroad.
Benedicte about her work:
“My works are visual and aesthetic in character and can be read as abstract anecdotes or metaphors that attempt to convey a recognizable atmosphere. I am curiously concerned with ontology and I want to explore the human tendencies related to uncertainty, fragility and sensitivity. I try to highlight aspects of life that are very human, but not necessarily easy to put into words. Therefore a partial wordless, but yet imagery-rich language is something I strive for in my projects.
Through abstractions and visualization I attempt to create space for the viewer’s own associations, as well as giving the viewer an individual and physical experience of the mood I am trying to convey.
I express myself through multiple media and it is important for me to challenge myself in new directions. Centered around the same thematic field of interest, but with new challenges related to expression.
Recurring qualities in my work is the apparent collapse and expansion at the same time. It is exposed and accessible, but veiled at the same time.”