Welcome to a conversation between Jorunn Veiteberg and Yuka Oyama.

9 September 
6-8pm

With a background as a jeweler Yuka Oyama is interested in what an object does to a person and what a person does to the objec: How does a static object influence its wearer? Is it the material value of an object or is it the agency within that works the wonder? This intertwined relationship between the subject and the object is of core interest to Yuka Oyama.

With an experimental approach Oyama has constructed a series of blown up sculptural artifacts shaping them into wearable suits. Through photographing them and filming them in movement, Yuka Oyama explores what she describes as the stubborn life of objects.

Jorunn Veiteberg is a freelance writer and researcher and currently a visiting professor at HDK – School of Design and Crafts, University of Gothenburg. For her work as a writer, she has received both The Foundation for Design and Architecture in Norway's and Norwegian Arts and Crafts' Honorary Awards.

Yuka Oyama was born in Tokyo 1974 and grew up in Malaysia, Japan, and Indonesia. She received her BFA (Jewelry and Light Metals) at Rhode Island School of Design in the USA and MA at Munich Art Academy (Art Jewelry and Sculpture) in Germany. She lives and works in Berlin and Oslo. Encapsulation Suits is part of Yuka Oyama’s investigation as a research fellow at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme, where she has been enrolled since October 2012.