Vilde Salhus Røed
Vilde Salhus Røed’s works are often based in photographic challenges, where archive and recycling of material make up key elements in several of her projects. Her work seeks an understanding of how our collective histories are shaped. Her 2014 exhibition For the Sake of Colour was based on early color photographs found in the Preus Museum’s collection taken by Leif Preus (1928-2013) for the sake of color experiments. Given Leif Preus own reprofotografier, she reprocessed these images to create new works that engage in dialogue with the history of photography, and asks fundamental questions about the medium's ability representation of the scene it depicts. Further examining the material and contextual sides of the photograph, she has also worked in a darkroom to develop images without negatives. The pictures look abstract but are in fact very specific in that they are the result of the process that made them.
Solo exhibitions of Salhus Røed’s work have been presented at Preus Museum in Horten, Entrée in Bergen, and Trykkeriet Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Bergen. She has been included in group exhibitions at Sørlandets Kunstmuseum in Kristiansand, Kunsthal Charlottenborg in København, The Woodmill in London, Fotogalleriet in Oslo, and Platform Stockholm among …
Vilde Salhus Røed’s works are often based in photographic challenges, where archive and recycling of material make up key elements in several of her projects. Her work seeks an understanding of how our collective histories are shaped. Her 2014 exhibition For the Sake of Colour was based on early color photographs found in the Preus Museum’s collection taken by Leif Preus (1928-2013) for the sake of color experiments. Given Leif Preus own reprofotografier, she reprocessed these images to create new works that engage in dialogue with the history of photography, and asks fundamental questions about the medium's ability representation of the scene it depicts. Further examining the material and contextual sides of the photograph, she has also worked in a darkroom to develop images without negatives. The pictures look abstract but are in fact very specific in that they are the result of the process that made them.
Solo exhibitions of Salhus Røed’s work have been presented at Preus Museum in Horten, Entrée in Bergen, and Trykkeriet Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Bergen. She has been included in group exhibitions at Sørlandets Kunstmuseum in Kristiansand, Kunsthal Charlottenborg in København, The Woodmill in London, Fotogalleriet in Oslo, and Platform Stockholm among other venues. She is also the leader of Hordaland Visual Artists and is one of the co-founders of Bergen Ateliergruppe.
Courtesy of Trykkeriet
Preus Museum, Horten, Norway
Bergen University College / KORO - Public Art Norway, Bergen, Norway
