to you 1994 - 2018. Photo credits: Jussi Tianien. Courtesy of Galerie Anhava.
to you 1994 - 2018
video, 16 mm black and white film digitalized;
8mins 29secs
Performer: Tale Dolven
pigment print, four black clips
149 x 149 cm
In the 16 mm film to you (1994) a 12-year old girl searches and stretches on a white circular
slab of Thassos marble in a field by a coastline. The girl’s focus is turned inwards and on her own
movements. The slab was installed by Dolven in Sandnes, near Stavanger, in 1994. In 2018, the
artist returned to Sandnes, where she found her sculpture covered in moss, almost
unrecognisable. The pigment print of the stone is in the scale of 1:1 presented next to a video
monitor with the film of the girl from 1994. The passing of time is perceivable through nature: the
changes to the stone from 1994 to 2018 marks a temporal arc of 24 years.
