Mari Ulland

Grid

12 August - 19 September 2021

Ulland sees the grid as a material. By gently pushing, lifting, and sliding, the layering of the fabric the grids fold into a variety of sculptural forms. Light and its shadows make the two-dimensional grid come to life.

Thoughts and discussions evolving the grid as a system and symbol are of a large influence when Ulland plans her works. The shaping of her sculptures always emerges from the properties of the textile as a constructed material, and of the limitations the grid structure imposes. They become ephemeral installations that slowly and meticulously settle in their shape. The installations appearing only for a short period of time, specific for each display.

Mari Ulland (b 1980, Bjørkelangen, Norway) lives and works in Oslo. She is educated from the Universität der Künste in Berlin and The Oslo School of Architecture and Design in Oslo where she earned her master’s degree in architecture in 2009. She is currently studying for her MFA in Medium and material-based art, at Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Her work has previously been shown at Intercultural Museum in Oslo (2019), Kunstplass Contemporary Art Oslo (2019, 2020), and Startblokka, Oslo (2021).