Niklas Schjetlein: Borrowed Memories
The images are soft and beautiful to look at when you see them up close. They become
more abstract works of art with unclear shapes and velvety colors, but when you move
away from the pictures, you will see signs of objects and human figures in action of doing
something. Which creates a completely different view of what one sees»
Niklas Schjetlein born 1984 in Oslo, currently studying at Bergen National Academy of art
and Design.
Schjetlein works with photography, and describes this exhibition as a meeting point
between the abstract and the figurative expression.What we see is originally moving
pictures transformed into photography's by the artist.
The films are borrowed memories of someone unknown. A fraction of people in an
embodiment of doing things in everyday life.
In these 8mm films, the artist catches people in a private context by looking into their most
sacred memories,
The pictures are subtle and abstract, even if we see the human figures in them, you do not
see who it is. This makes the persons, and pictures, ambiguous and not specific about
who, what and where.