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2min 20 sec, 3:4, Hull, UK 2006
This work plays on the idea of roles and conflicting feelings and identities. Who we are and how we want to be seen, how you see yourself from the outside, and how others actually perceive you. Drawing on ideas of the good and the bad, right and wrong.

Short Bio
Laila Evensen works as an artist in Berlin and Haugesund. She has, since the late 90's, made works in the mediums of photography, film, video, and installation.
Her work evolves around the difference between the personal contra collective experience of private/public space, relating to freedom of movement, physical expression, and navigation in everyday life, and how we automatically are driven towards being part of a bigger whole.
"I play with light and darkness and want to encourage the onlooker to contemplate the good and bad. I find it essential to create a balance between the positive and the negative, combining play with more serious comments."
Evensen completed her Fine Art BA at the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, UK, in 2001, and has shown her work internationally, as well as being part of various groups (including Salon Bruit, Red Gallery, 54°N, and Safe as Milk) organising and curating exhibitions and events in Berlin, the UK, and Norway.

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Future SHOWS/PROJECTS
- "Wunderland 2" Mica Moca, Berlin, 23 -- 25 September
- "In/to Dark" Dance/Installation w/ J. Kokkomäki, Helsinki, Prague & Stavanger, 2012
- West Coast Touring Exhibition, Norway, 2012
- Shortlisted, Gallery GIGA, Norway, Commission

Commission
2011
Gassco, Karmøy, Norway -- 'Apparent Movement"

Selected FILM/VIDEO SCREENINGS
2011
Movimento Kino, Berlin, May
2010
*'Verwertung" Art festival, Berlin 25th June- 4th July
*"The Incredible 10" Art Festvial, Dresden, 9th-11th July
2009
Rogaland Teater/Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger, Norway, March/April
2008
Woest Weduwe, Filmfestival, Focus Film Theatre, 5th July - , Arnhem, NL

Selected EXHIBITIONS
2011
"Waiting in the Wings", Galerie Walden, Berlin, July
"Caliginous" w/ Jenni Kokkomäki (performance), Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway, 10th -20th February.
2009
*Ashes Project, Theatre Alfred Ve Dvore, Prague, Video Projections included in dance production by J. Kokkomäki 9th, 11th and 12th September
*Lange Nacht der Kunst, Gütersloh, Germany. 16.05.
*Bunker Ulmenwall, bildwild - Ausstellungs Performance, Group Show, 19th May -- 30th June,
Bielefeld, Germany
*Artists Unlimited -- "Susurration" Artist in Residence Solo Show, 8/5-17/5, Bielefeld, Germany
*Artists Unlimited -- "Anders als Auch" Group Show, 27/3 -- 12/4, Bielefeld, Germany
2008
*Latitude, Group Show by 54°N 28th November -- 14th December, Video screened on BBC Big Screen,
Queen Victoria Square, Hull, UK
*Nord-Art (KIC) 2008 group exhibition, 7th June -- 28th September, Rendsburg/Büdelsdorf,
Germany
*Hems, at CIA (Center for Icelandic Art), Reykjavik ‚ Group show
*H87, Podium voor actuele kunst in Arnhem, Holland, March

Category:

Film & Animation

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• Laila Evensen
• kunst
• video art
• experimental
• eksperimentell
• movement
• bevegelse
• swing
• føyse
• dans
• dance