Elements III Blue
On Eternities Tablets: Anne Katrine Senstad

Curated By
Sarah Walko

November.24 - February.28.2021

ELEMENTS III BLUE

Elements Blue an invitation to experience Anne Katrine Senstad's spatial light, color and sound environment installation entitled ELEMENTS III BLUE as a sensorial journey through the art works ephemeral yet gravitational elements, and the cellular particles of light, sound and space. The ocular impact of the of blue and its ethereal qualities on our cognitive system is narrated by the presence and intimacy of a singular audience within the installation. The neon sculpture and immersive installation is accompanied by polymath Catherine Christer Hennix's composition The Well Tuned Marimba and recreates the mesmerizing and hypnotic experience of the art work in the video. Hennix's composition was originally recorded at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm in 1976 as en eternally looping sound work with no beginning nor an end, re-enforcing the sensation of infinity inherent in the color blue and the enveloping horizon.

Anne Katrine Senstad | LIGHT COLOR SPACE ARTIST

The practice of Norwegian artist Anne Katrine Senstad lies at the intersections of light sculpture, installation art, photography, video art, and site-specificity within the language of chromatic minimalism, the experiential condition and perceptual environments. With training in color theory, optics, and the psychology of space, for over several decades Senstad’s practice has focused on the phenomenology of perception of space, light, sound, and color.  In her text works Senstad addresses human nature, ethics, social criticism and philosophy through intervention and installation art with the staple of word play, employing commercial and utilitarian materials. Senstad’s practice in socially engaged field projects and land art works includes agricultural, cultural and social-political interactions and collaborations, performative interventions that seek to create wider educational and cultural platforms among diverse ideologies. Senstad ‘s work and vision engages a development for what she sees as a new folklore and amalgamation between postmodern individualism and a new internationalism through creative authenticity, and the human and cultural enterprise.

Anne Katrine Senstad was raised in Singapore and Norway, today she lives and works between New York and Oslo, Norway. She received her art education at Parsons School of Design and The New School for Social Research (BFA) in New York 1994 and 1999 (film studies), and Berkeley University, CA in 1989 (film studies) .

She has exhibited internationally in galleries, museums, and institutions; selected exhibitions include: Kai Art Center, (Estonia), 55th and 56th Venice Biennale (Italy), Bruges Art and Architecture Triennale (Belgium), He Xiangning Art Museum (China), Trafo Kunsthall (Norway), Octavia Art Gallery (New Orleans + Houston), Zendai Moma (China), The Canadian Museum of Nature, Athr Gallery alongside James Turrell, Robert Irwin , Carlos Criz-Diez and Leo Villarreal, (KSA).  

She is the recipient of artist residencies at Marblehouse Projects, Vermont and Abu Dhabi Arthub (UAE), and been awarded artist grants and support from Arts Council Norway, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Forbundet Frie Fotografer, (Norway), NBK (Norway), BKH (Norway), DOGA (Norway), FCA (New York) and the Royal Norwegian Consulate General. Public Art Commissions include Ohio State Percent for Art Program with Snøhetta Architects for the Wolfe Center for the Arts at BGSU and Penn State Engineering building Skirkanich building with Billie Tsien + Tod Williams Architects,. She has participated in several video art and light art festivals including ISEA Dubai 2014 (UAE), Rencontres Internationales Festival (FR) at Centre Pompidou, Haus Der Kultur Der Welt, Beirut Art Center. Museum of Modern Art Ukraine, Dallas Aurora, Eva Peron Museum, Oslo Screen Festival and K4 Gallery, Oslo.