01/12/24 - 15/02/25

Skrapt, Jørgen Herleiksplass Lie (NO)

(image to the left: courtesy of the artist)

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Galleri Kronborg is thrilled to present its new exhibition opening on Sunday 1st of December, at 13.00.
*Meet at the top of Fløibanen at 12.45 to walk up together*
 

" If you stare long enough into a black hole, there's a good chance you'll see something that isn't there. Like an old man who's had too much to drink and thinks he sees his mother—but she isn’t there. Our most fundamental beliefs stand like a structure on pillars that are nothing more than old wooden logs. They point toward the sky, but they are floating, as if they’ve lost their footing, and a coincidence—a small splinter—can topple them with a single tug. And everything we've built up in our minds can crumble away. Our reality edges closer to a dream when the lights go out.

The exhibition "Scraped" at Kronborg casts a mocking smile at our thoughts when they become too clear and pulls them back into the shadows. It creates a space where logic doesn’t care about what you see but about what you don’t see. What you can sense in the darkness, when you have nothing to rely on but what’s in your head, like an echo of something you’ve forgotten.

Herleiksplass builds a microcosm where our personal memories, our collective imaginations, and the silence of nature meet like old friends in a bar, none of them entirely honest about who they are. It’s a conversation between the unconscious and the conscious, between memories that never quite fade and things we’ll never fully remember."

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Herleiksplass’s artistic practice explores fundamental elements such as light, shadow, and natural details, where the interplay between structure and movement creates a world that exists between the visible and the invisible. Through the process of seeing, the moment is examined as a gateway to understanding time and presence, with painting serving as a bridge between the tangible and the abstract.
With a multidisciplinary approach spanning painting, printmaking, and mixed media, Herleiksplass delves into themes of transformation and nature’s cycles. The works balance abstraction and realism, featuring layered compositions and dynamic details that invite viewers to reflect on the relationship between space, time, and perception.

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Jørgen Herleiksplass Lie (JHL), born in 1990 in Bergen, holds an education from the Bergen Academy of Art and Design, the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB), and a Master’s degree from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.