Norwegian contemporary artist Hanne Friis responds to changing the way of life with the pandemic, specifically around the use of material in our urban lives.
Even when the global pandemic has gradually receded, its repercussions are long borne. The creative force if does not run the course of charting the flow of the pandemic, it beholds the power to represent its aftermaths. The Norwegian artistc Hanne Friis was not untouched by changing way of life with the COVID-19 when she witnessed a toll of materials transported near her apartment, for a short time, at the Cité des Arts in Paris in the autumn of 2021. The changing scene conjured the work Hellby the artist Gustav Vigeland Helvete in her mind when she travelled to the Rodin Museum to ponder upon what entails The Gates of Hell. As a creative response to the changing dynamics of life, Friis made 15 works within a span of 12 months for her exhibition at the Vigeland Museum. The contemporary art exhibition Torrent by the textile artist currently on at Galerie Maria Wettergren in Paris brings forth a selection of crucial works from the Vigeland Museum in Oslo.