MARBLES

[04.07.24 - 25.07.24]

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MARBLES is the result of a longterm collaboration between the artists Thyra Dragseth and Sofie

Amalie Andersen. Presented for the first time at OSTRA, the exhibition contains a series of cinematic

chapters circulating around the conflicts and frustration of a a love relationship. The oscillating

scenes are immersed into a fragmented installation with small glass balls known as ‘marbles’ as

the obviously central object. The installation in turn withdraw and connects us to the action taking

place on screen, allowing us to think about our own perspective and sense of (material)

understanding. Letting their artistic practices meet, merge and mix, the two artists depart from their

common interest of drama – that constant question of “what’s at stake” in our daily lives.

Investigating the notion of tension, of emergency and inherent human violence – but also the

passion and desire that moves and directs us – Marbles poses a fundamental relationship

question: how to live within it, and how to live without it.

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Thyra Dragseth (1993) is a Norwegian visual artist. She lives and works between Lisbon and Oslo

from where she is currently attending the MFA program at the National Art Academy. She has

previously studied at Belas Artes Lisboa, and at the Oslo School of Art Photography. Between

2021 and 2023 she co-founded and ran the curatorial project Lars Lisboa in collaboration with

Joana Oliveira. Dragseth works multidisciplinary with photography, film, text, and installation.

Having the camera at the core of her practice she uses different mediums to reflect the

conceptual framework of specific projects. Her works often arise from her own lived experiences

and perception, becoming pieces of translated reality. In this sense, Dragseths work relates to the

ethical landscape of artistic methodology – how to handle other people's perspectives and shared

memories. She often collaborates with both colleagues and non artists, implementing

collaboration itself as a method for further reflection in her practice.

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Sofie Amalie Andersen (1989) is a Danish visual artist. She is educated from the Malmö Art

Academy (MFA 2021) and Oslo Art Academy (BFA 2018) and in 2022 she participated in the

Maumaus International Study program in Lisbon. Andersen works with a broad range of materials

and mediums – from sculpture and installation to text, printed matter and film. Her composite and

contrasting works reflect her own dubious questions regarding reality. Often merging traditional

artistic techniques with industrial DIY aesthetics, she seeks to provoke an increased awareness of

those interlaced material, emotional and linguistic structures that surrounds us. In her work she

stresses moments of fragility, tension and ambiguity, which, in her view, are key concepts of life

itself. Sofie Amalie Andersen is also director of the exhibition space SOL in Nexø (DK), from where

she has been curating and organising exhibitions for a number of international artists since 2019.

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The exhibition is supported by The Norwegian Art Council and The Danish Art Foundation. Thanks

to The Danish Art Workshops for facilitating production.

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