A man and a woman and a blackbird

Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, Norway / June 7 - July 5, 2024

'The three primary colours, red, yellow and blue, which she has limited her palette to particularly for her exhibition at Galleri Opdahl, A man and a woman and a blackbird, were also imposed on Stavanger canneries’ in-house lithographers, one of which was located in the building that today houses the gallery. Lastly, Kraus has tweaked her instrument so that the ratio between the dimension of the canvas and the distance between repeating marks remains consistent between all three works, allowing them to conjoin into a continuous panorama when viewed from specific spots in the gallery space. Her canvases absorb these atmospheric, historical, and spatial codes, weaving them into compositions where programmatic repetition allows for serendipitous moments of organic mutation and invention. Kraus’ instrument, painting allied with a skeleton print mechanism, serves as a model to explore the inventive capacities of colliding media systems. And amid these collisions, the works locate a space for human agency—if only for a moment and from a particular point of view.'

Excerpt from Greger Elgin exhibition text

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