We visit the 2022 edition of the Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF) in Norway’s Arctic archipelago, an edition filled with myth, politics and Gothic horror
Áhcagastá - Tales of the EmberVågakallen is the ‘old man mountain’ which stretches out across the bay from Storvågan village. He lies on his back, head pointing towards the sea – crossed arms and raised knees rising in undulating peaks and scarps. Like many of the mountains in the region, Vågakallen was once a troll, his backstory involving a failed pursuit of a young virgin, a horseman, seven sisters baking bread, and an arrow shot into a hat of the king.
It’s storytelling which steers the ship of contemporary culture in Lofoten, an archipelago in Norway’s Arctic Circle, host since 1991 to Scandinavia’s longest-running contemporary biennale, the Lofoten International Art Festival . Themed ’Fantasmagoriana’, the 2022 edition’s guiding star is the anthology of German supernatural tales chosen as writing inspiration by Byron, Shelley, Polidori and Clairmont during their infamous gathering at Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva in 1816. .
The Museum Under Destruction venue , housing a solo show by Jennifer West and exterior prints by Eivind H. Natvig, Her engagement with American cinema surfaces through a catalogue of “broken technologies”, from 16mm film to ‘holofans’, designed as seductive shopping mall devices. Towering cranes sway amongst palm trees. Piles of rubble are plinths to screens, others cascade waterfall-like from wall to floor, flickering with the lesions of damaged photographic negatives.
Some staged, others candid, his images dare to expose “the wounds of society that are very painful”, he says, wielding humour with surgeon-like precision. Storytelling is a survival strategy, as it was for the fishermen and islanders of these extreme lands. - a phallic-shaped comic protest at the patriarchal apparatus of war
Drawings on paper from the studio of film-maker Tsai Ming-liang, occupying the sports hall of Kabelvåg’s primary school, Improvisations on the Memory of Cinema and Beautiful Night, 2017
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