Solveig Ane Kirkaune Øksendal

I mainly work with figurative drawing, watercolor and recently textiles. Via the female gaze and feminist tradition, I work with the body, gender and sexuality, and the psychology that can be found there, as a thematic starting point. Black humor and references to both art history and popular culture are tools I consciously make use of. With references, I want to show recognition to the long tradition I work in and under, and try to draw new lines between what is happening and what has happened. Humor serves as an entrance to vulnerable topics. What Julia Kristeva refers to as the abject, as something that is between subject and object and that points back to man’s own materiality (or a reminder of death if you like), that has both attractive and repulsive qualities is also important in my work.