DWELL / PIECES THAT FALL

For the exhibition in Sandefjord Kunstforening, Tone Myskja exhibited work that is at the intersection of visual art, performing arts and music. The sound design for both installations is made by composer Jon Balke. The two video and sound installations Dwell and Pieces that Fall explore themes related to space, time and human experience. How the continuous change of the environment shapes our identity and perception. The works thematize how movement, displacement and transformation are fundamental features of the life we live. Dwell and Pieces that Fall provide a poetic, but also political perspective on the human relationship to the outside world.
Dwell is a video/sound installation where the gallery space is darkened for the projection of the two video works,
The Heart Has Two Chambers – Lines and Frequencies.
The exhibition thematizes the human experience of the forest as a mythical and fantastic place. Also as a structure or a network. It is beautiful, peaceful and safe. It is dark, unstable and constantly changing. You can hide, get lost and disappear in the forest.

The video and sound installation Pieces that Fall shows a figure in a white landscape. A landscape in slow change. The video work thematizes displacement and transformation, both in nature and in society. Landscape, geography and the space around us are affected by light, temperature and what/who is there. Movements occur in the bedrock, the glacier calve, the fog comes and disappears, the landscape condenses. It is like waves of particles in motion in their own unpredictable system. Society and everyday life sometimes change in invisible waves. Displacements happen without one having fully seen or understood how the displacement happened.