About this exhibition
The 16mm film Bike and Bolex echoes Mai Hofstad Gunnes ongoing reflection on the construction of identity. A group of five women bicycle in circular paths while filming each other with Bolex cameras. The revolving movements captured by the five subjective cameras draw a molecular structure without a fixed center and convey an idea of a non-hierarchical multiple subjectivity. A publication will be launched alongside the exhibition.
WIELS artist-in-residency Mai Hofstad Gunnes (born 1977, Lørenskog, Norway) works with film, collage, and installation. Recent exhibitions include Oh how time flies, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (2011); Le choix du titre est un faux problème, Cneai de Paris, Paris (2011); Goddesses, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo (2010); Pyrrhic Fortune, Sils, Rotterdam (2010) and A shape of love you can never imagine, Oslo Fine Art Society, Oslo (2009).
