Maiken Stene
Point Voyeur
Maiken Stene, Point Voyeur, 2015
Point Voyeur is best decribed as a viewpoint between two different landscapes. Maiken Stene’s body of work can be placed on such a point.
Inspired by the mining industry of her home town Sokndal, Stene has produced a body of work that studies how the extraction of iron ore transforms the landscape. The mining company Titania produces six million tons of ilmenite annualy which is then processed into titanium dioxide, the most commonly used white pigment.
Parallel to this Stene also studied Western national romantic landscape painting. Point Voyeur examines not only the landscape, but also how our perception of the world changes with industrialisation. How do we position our body to find the optimal view of nature? In what way have painters affected our experience of the landscape? Why do we continue to construct artificial viewpoints instead of studying our surroundings through a personal, self-defined gaze?
Stene carries her own landscapes into Oslo Kunstforening, presenting an exhibition with painting- and video installations, that play with how scale and perspective change with the viewer’s location in space.
Maiken Stene, Point Voyeur, 2015
Bio
Maiken Stene (b. 1983) studied at the Malmö Art Academy, and lives and works in Oslo and Sokndal. She has previously exhibited at Hå Gamle Prestegard, Vargåkra Konsthall and Uppsala Konstmuseum. She is represented in the collections of Stavanger Art Museum as well as private collections. Point Voyeur is her first solo exhibition in Oslo.
Maiken Stene, Point Voyeur, 2015
On October 21 at 5 pm there will be a conversation between Maiken Stene and Geir Haraldseth, head of Rogaland Kunstnersenter. The conversation will be held in Norwegian.
Oslo Kunstforening is supported by Arts Council Norway and Oslo City Council.