EXHIBITIONS MA-WEEKEND: SOL HALLSET
MA-student Sol Hallset tackles the large, and often pathos-laden question “what is it to be human?” without fear. Hallset’s approach is factual and direct, her means are simple, but powerful – this also shines through in the format of her work.
The biggest challenge for the portrait artist has been to create one consistent image of the complex man. Through history there has been many an attempt to put the human expression of emotion in a system, to map the relation between the human mind and exterior physical reactions. Sol Hallset does not add to this project, although her drawings do not lack expression. To be human is not only the relation between one’s inner world and the exterior surface or façade, it is also about our relation to other people. We are concerned about how we come across, how others perceive us, and we measure ourselves up against other people.
In the exhibition Belonging. Becoming. Being. the young artist takes account of all these contrasts, and lets the model inhabit the necessary space.
Sol Hallset (1982) is a first year MA-student at Bergen National Academy of the Arts. After her BA-studies at Trondheim Academy of Fine Art and three years traveling, she is back in the city where she first started to study art in 2001, at Bergen Art School. She has recently been part of several collaborative projects, and she has exhibited in group exhibitions, such as Vårutstillingen at Tegnerforbundet. This spring her works can also be seen in the exhibition Tegnekunsten at Agder Kunstnersenter.
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The MA-weekend is collaboration between Hordaland Art Centre and Bergen National Academy of the Arts. Twice a year the MA-students at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts are invited to submit proposals for an exhibition to be realised at Hordaland Art Centre, and a professional jury selects one of the proposals.
