Patricia Carolina - If this line finds you snaking
Arrangement av Patricia Carolina
"Formsalen"
Oslo National Academy of the Arts
Fossveien 24, 0551 Oslo.
March 11-20, 2022
Tue-Sun 13:00-18:00
Opening March 11th, 18:00-21:00
A trace is the delayed sign of an encounter: memory and premonition. As a curtain that briefly trembles after someone crosses it, some traces linger as they transform; others stay as hollow spaces, cracks beyond repair.
“If this line finds you snaking” is an installation containing moving image and text. From geography to vitality, the material includes vanishment marks and water textures gathered as moving through multiple locations. A wetland; a nameless village flooded and forgotten; the patches from a bullet-pierced apartment block never repainted; a sinking city.
Patricia Carolina (MX) engages with bodies of clay and water, containers, porosity, and movement. How is the shape of the uncontainable? Can leaks signalize our relation to population flows and ephemerality? Her work deals with these questions through multiple media. From installation to performance, and from poetry to pottery.
She graduated from the Iceland University of Arts in 2019; shortly lived and worked in Tuscany and Berlin. Her work has been shown at Midpunkt, Gallery Flæði, Reykjavik Art Museum, and the Nordic House. Currently, Patricia pursues an MFA in fine arts at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. “If this line finds you snaking” is part of her degree examination.