STATEMENT
 
Nina Torp works on editing history. She examines the archetypal and how it appears in the reproduction of places. She plays with icons from art history and uses a wide repertoire of materials, questioning their essential meaning; for instance, paintings turn out to be her own imitations of abstract expressionist icons soaked in a water bath and then photographed, volcanic rocks (excerptions from paintings from the sublime era) are shown to be industrial waste products, videos of waterfalls turn out to be a reworking of old postcards into which the artist has added her own video footage of water cascades, recorded 150 years later.
 
Nina Torp investigates large collected photographic material. She explores cultural phenomena regarding the cultivation of landscape. She uses photography, sculpture and installation to examine works, genres and cultures related to different art historical eras.
 
 
VIDEOWORKS by Nina Torp

NINA TORP by Lisa Slominski / Feature in MÅG magazine
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One-Act Play / Tenderpixel Gallery
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Memoirs of A Tourist / Gallery LNM
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Feature Memoirs of A Tourist
Interview Aftenposten
 
An Agreeable Kind of Horror / Grünerløkka Lufthavn
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Dissolving Paintings / Sandnes Art Society
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