Statement

Nina Torp's art practice explores the meeting point of painting, sculpture and photography. Since she graduated, Torp has worked with the medium of painting as a concept.
Her work deals with the importance and consequence of colour, either by adding or removing colour. She has developed, over the last few years, a repertoire of techniques such as dipping and pouring paint and making casts in pigmented polyester plaster and clay. Her reference points include still life in photography and installations with references to Caravaggio, Cezanne, Hieronymus Bosch and early surrealism.

The background for the project "Dissolving paintings", her soloshow at Sandnes Art Society, Norway (2008), were deconstructed paintings.
In this project, the artist re-created famous paintings from modernism.
Torp's imitations were paintings in different artistic styles that she soaked and photographed.
The paintings went through a transformation when they got diluted in water and became something new. The composition of the works and it's art historical references dispersed when paint mixed with water. The new composition of the paintings werefinalised in a new medium: photography.