In this exhibition, Linda Lamignan (b.1988) brings together works from 2021 to the present.
Through a confident and rich visual language in video, painting, sound and performance, Lamignan explores themes such as storytelling and translation, transformation and love. Lamignan, who grew up in the oil region of Stavanger and has roots from Nigeria, thematically intertwines oil extraction, oral histories and language in a narrative where the animistic belief system, that everything is alive and connected, plays a key role.
In 2023 Linda Lamignan traveled to Delta State in Nigeria. They traveled by boat through the Forcados river to visit Gbaramatu, the community of Lamignan’s grandfather, a place where crocodiles are seen as sacred protectors and referred to as “mother”. Lamignan explores the ideas of the crocodile as an environmental guardian of its native landscapes; the crude oil (biological remains of ancient crocodiles); their ancestors, and themselves/us, and how removing the grounding energy (crude oil) from the earth, affects the landscape’s energy.
The exhibition at Galleri F 15 speaks of the value system that views living landscapes merely as economic resources. Yet it also offers an opportunity to understand living landscapes as extensions of our own bodies, where the passage of time unfolds and sources of wisdom, spirit, memory and love flow.
Curator: Maria C. Havstam.
Linda Lamignan (b. 1988, Stavanger) is educated at The Academy of Fine Art in Oslo and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Lamignan lives and works in Copenhagen and has earned recognition with exhibitions at places like Quest, Copenhagen (2023), Musée d’art de Joliette, Québec (2023), and Rogaland Art Center, Stavanger (2021). In 2023, Lamignan was the recipient of the Norwegian Savings Bank Foundation scholarship, a recognition of exceptional talent. lindalamignan.com
The exhibition is supported by Arts Council Norway.
Photo: Linda Lamignan, ABEDE, Sparebankstiftelsen DNBs stipendutstilling 2023, Oslo Kunstforening. Photo by Jacky Jaan-Yuan Kuo / Oslo Kunstforening.
