Oslo Kunstforening is pleased to welcome you to the opening of the exhibition Nearing Towards the Edge of the World with works by Samoa Rémy, Thursday 28 September at 18-20. Former Director of Oslo Kunstforening, Marianne Hultman, who initiated this collaboration, will open the exhibition.

Samoa Rémy was born in 1974 in Mendrisio, Switzerland and has been based in Oslo for more than twenty years.Rémy holds a master’s degree in printmaking from the Art and Design department, the Oslo National Academy of the Arts from 2002, and she was an exchange student at the National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo from 1997 to 1999. Remy also undertook a MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy in 1999. Remy is currently a PhD fellow in artistic practice at the Department of Art and Craft at KHiO, undertaking a project titled Layers of Darkness and Light. The works shown in this exhibition are a continuation of her PhD project.

Rémy states that “the exhibition deals with the gap between the known and the unknown, between the measured and the unmeasured, the very close and the very far, between darkness and light”.

Rémy has for several years collected existing visual material, primarily illustrations from old scientific books. Oscillations Between the Very Far and the Very Close, I-VIII (2023), is made up of eight large-scale woven pictures showing enlargements of specific scientific and cosmological illustrations. Rémy has de-contextualised these images by erasing all information, such as text, measurements, and numbers, stripping them of all scientific utility. Instead, Rémy wants the works to appeal to human experience and sensation: “by juxtaposing representations belonging to disparate disciplines, a new narrative comes to life” she explains. In addition, two sculptural installations are being presented.