Yngvild Nergaard

I’m drawn to places and situations where the contrast between man and nature is extra evident. Building sites and industrial areas, or where the city meets forests and wilderness, is where I find ideas and inspiration.
Some paintings are also inhabited by strange creatures inspired by images and stories I find online. These figures ad a different kind of contrast to the slightly dreary surroundings I place them into.

Over the last two years I’ve been working on a series I call Hinterland. Places, buildings and landscapes that exist in a kind of limbo both geographically and in time form the basis for the work I make.
Buildings that were meant to be temporary but keep standing there. They are neither new or old, just forgotten and are left like ghosts. Lakes and rivers appear and disappear in urban landscapes, silently watched over by stooping streetlights.
A series of lightboxes is inspired by a type of information boards where maps and symbols show your location. The often dirty or graffiti covered surfaces of these boards give them an appearance of not belonging in the presence. And yet, they convey the seemingly very current message, you are here.