"Lund makes these small scenes into instant and almost tactile objects." — Stian Gabrielsen
Excerpt
Some days ago. At a café.We sat on tall chairs around a table. He was telling me about translations of Kafka.
‘In the French translations there are several mistakes.’
He said, before mentioning a sentence from ‘The Judgement’:
‘He left. Then he closed the door.’
‘Mhm.’
‘In the original there is only one sentence.’
‘OK.’
‘He left and closed the door’.Close ˆ
About the Author
Inger Wold Lund (Bergen, 1983) is an artist and writer based in Berlin. Lund is educated at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts; Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm; and Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt am Main. Recent exhibitions include Museo Apparente, Napoli; Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt am Main; Hordaland Art Center, Bergen, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo; Galleri Box, Gothenburg; and INCA, Seattle. Her first book in her native Norwegian will be published by Flamme Forlag (Spring 2015). She is a current recipient of a work grant from BKV-Fond for Visual Artists, Norway.
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Review of Solo Exhibition at Percival Space, OsloBook Details
ChapbookHand-bound. 32 pp, 5.75 x 7.5 in.
Publication Date: June 1, 2015
Distribution: InPress (UK)/Direct only
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News and Reviews
Advance Praise
Reminiscent of a film script. . . Lund makes these small scenes into instant and almost tactile objects, cleared of affective noise.—Stian Gabrielsen
It is impressive to write about nothing, but Wold manages well. Here there are small, quirky or embarrassing episodes from the life of a young woman. No event is too small, it can circle around drinking soda where a mosquito has landed, or where to find a place for the glass at an art opening. The quality lies in the skill of observing the small things, and in the subtle tone. This is feel good short prose, at times with a funny/melancholic edge.—Anne Cathrine Straume, NRK
The Russian formalist Viktor Sjklovskij claimed that it was the task of poetry to tear appart our automatized relationship with the world, through among other things a shift in perspective. 'Ingenting skjedde' makes us not only open our eyes to the nice, strange and comical things that happen in the book, but also in our own lives. Because often it is not that nothing happens, but that we are too busy running in our own footprints to notice it.—Gina Tandberg, bokmerker.org