Signe Marie Andersen: Visitors

About

Signe Marie Andersen (b. 1968) lives and works in Oslo, and received her artistic education at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design. Andersen has expanded her photographic practice with a distinct approach, from working with more or less clearly staged motifs, the narrative streak is now entwined with a play between different moods. Many pictures have been taken on Andersen's travels and take place in transit areas such as airports and hotels. A recurring feature in many of Andersen's works is a melancholic tone and a bright light that reminds the viewer of an existential loneliness and a feeling of the unstoppable speed of life. At the same time the pictures are never completely discouragingly dark, but are filled with subtle, low key humor - emphasized by her poetic and often absurd titles - thus acting more as an enhanced concentration of recognizing life, with its pauses, lost time, longing for meaning and interpersonal meetings. Her long-standing relationship with the theatre influences her artistry.