SUDDEN SHOWER

ATOPIA kunstlab will be a study room for creation and analysis of motion, an open place for meetings and discussions with artists as well as a laboratory for art in public space.

Per Hess & Nina Bang working as a duo are the first collaborators in this project. Together they are producing the installation work "Sudden Shower" with neon light sculptures (PH) and a large drawing mounted on the window (NB). "Sudden Shower" creates its sense of motion through the interactions between light and drawing. The exhibition takes place in mid wintertime and it points on that rain has fallen at Svalbard this winter for the first time in modern history.

The title "Sudden Shower" refers to Utogawa Hirosjhiges woodcut with the same name and the window grid are based on interpretion of the rain motive in this picture. The installation comments the gap between Hiroshiges poetic, beautiful rain studies and the present alarming climate situation.