Exhibition at Small Projects Tromsø 2012.

 

Press release:

Small Projects Tromsø November 9 – 17 2012

Thale Fastvold and Javier Barrios

Science fiction, the outer space, technology, catastrophe, perspective and probabilities are some of the themes explored by the exhibitions There Is No Danger To Us Here On Earth by Thale Fastvold and Small Projects by Javier Barrios. Both artists, although working separately, share a common interest in the worlds and space beyond our own.

Thale Fastvold works with photography, text and installations. She has a BA in photography from the Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome, and Cand. mag degree in Art History and Literature from the University of Oslo, and studied as a curator at the Telemark University. Her works has been shown at the Tygve Lie Gallery (NYC), Kunstnernes Hus, Tegnerforbundet (Oslo), Blunk (Trondheim) and Palazzo Ruspoli (Rome), to name a few.

Javier Barrios works with painting, photography, drawing and installation. He has a BA in Fine Arts from the Art Academy, Oslo and studied at the School of Visual Arts, NY. He has shown in Akershus Kunstsenter, Rod Bianco Gallery, A Gallery Copenhagen, Galerie Muelhaupt Cologne, as well as galleries in London, Berlin and Oslo.

About Fastvold’s project:

There is no danger to us here on Earth

What happens to your mind when you start thinking about the possibility of an asteroid the size of 2,4 km hitting our planet? Is it reassuring or unsettling to know that astronomers constantly keep track of all potentially harmful asteroids (PHAs) moving towards the Earth?

By bringing statistics of PHAs, parts of lunar meteorites, Mars rocks and other unidentified meteorite pieces which have actually moved through the atmosphere and landed on planet Earth, into her sculptural objects, Fastvold aims to question our relationship with time, space, perspective and probabilities.

The installation consists of sculptural objects and a stack of flyers. The flyers contain a risk analysis of meteorites that may hit the Earth during the exhibition period. The sculptural objects contain various stones, pearls, prisms and parts of meteorites from Mars and the Moon. Flyer for Small Project exhibit: There_is_no_danger_flyernov0112

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