KryssXPunkt

Jenny Alnaes, Grete Lis Bibalo, Jannecke Lonne Christiansen, Barbro Hernes

The four artists who represent KRYSS PUNKT have a common understanding
of photography as a tool which offers various strategies for organizing REALITY.
To create the necessary distance to the ever pressing and sometimes threatening facts of the world, they transpose this reality by ways of artistical means and change it into something manageable.
The idea of the project is based on the artists common attitude to photography as such. Namely as a tool to be used as raw-material in the process of creating the final work, without taking away its own identity. The condition for this brake of reality is found in our expectation of the authenticity of photography and its representation of something which HAS BEEN. This feeling is still to be found as traces in the works of each artist.





JANNECKE LONNE CHRISTIANSENS VIDEO-WORK 'Natt og Dag' (Night and Day) consists of two video-projections, which present on the one hand a sleeping woman and on the other, something like a dream world: A girl walking with naked feet in the grass while withered roseleaves are falling. The work is interwoven with sequences of a floating misty character. The unclear misty scene seems to represent glimpses into our emergency-reserve. At the same time as Christiansen in this resent work is more filmatic than in her earlier video-works, she presents some of the pictures as atmospheric stills. The video is not narrative as such, but is cut in accordance with music of Antonio Bibalo following the rhythmic flow of the music.
The title 'Natt og Dag' refers directly to our 24 hours rhythm of sleeping and being awake, but has also a metaphoric dimension. Our dreams are constantly menaced by images of memory. The video may be understood as a visualisation of introspection resulting in loss of innocence. A state of nervous ANGST is continuously unsettling the calm and quietness of the clear day. Christiansens purpose is to present to us the vague knowledge about the real 'state of affairs' in this world. It is also about our will to absorb the daily messages of war and cruelty, and therefore about guilt. Who can be exempted from quilt? Is the one who sleeps without guilt?


GRETE LIS BIBALO creates her works by way of computer manipulation. The artist emphasises the expressions in pictures which have made impression on her - not to clarify, but rather to minimise an expression which seems too dramatic.
Her pictures contain a latent drama without being too theatrical. The form is expressive but controlled .Bibalo is searching for contained silence in the same way as can be felt in a work of music, where an interval of silence is used to hold back emotions.
It is the poetic and 'painterly' which interests Bibalo, more than the objective referential aspect. The forms undergo a digital metamorphosis, and in front of our eyes they appear as undefined organic forms. The final result is that the picture is positioned between the real and the unreal. The artist is concerned with the fact that the ugly can contain a strange beauty. The pictures are beautiful but unsettling. Is it the darkest corners of the soul, she presents to the spectator?
In the picture 'Amnesia moon' a hand is held in front of the light. The interpretation of the picture might be understood as a rejection of our notion of knowledge. The title refers to the loss of memory, and that history does not learn from its mistakes. The same events only reappear in new clothing.