Ottar Karlsen

My main medium is drawing, but I also work with text, collage, art books and video. The drawings are composed around a collage approach where different parts, be it text or elements from other images, are put together to create new contexts. In recent years, I have explored how a type of language used in advertising and self-help literature can affect how we understand the nature around us and the announced climate changes we face. The works can be seen as critical comments on a contemporary situation where nature, our common good, is both a product and a battlefield for competing interests.