Time is passing through the hands of K. Rosenlund. With no room for interpretation, the boss has ordered that it must be kept. The throat feels dried by the gravity of the situation, the coffee does not quench the thirst. Rather, it makes time accelerate – so does the breath. The caffeine and the stress makes the hands shiver, and now time is leaking at full speed.
The clock strikes 17:00. The office dissolves into a cloud of pixels that reorganize to make a picture of an unknown street. The lack of oxygen due to the shallow breathing and the vast amount of caffeine, has led to a dizziness deteriorated by the rapid change of scenery.
Disoriented, she gets lost in the unknown city.
She asks passers-by for directions. They all give different descriptions that she follows due to lack of anything better to do. The evening turns to night, then to day, and yet another day. In the end comes Monday morning.
The access card has a portrait in its right corner. After careful examination, the door man eventually lets her through.
The elevator quickly arrives at the fifth floor. She walks to the kitchen to make a cup of coffee. Above the counter, there’s a note: «Your mom doesn’t work here.»
Suddenly she remembers that neither does she.
In this exhibition, Klara Rosenlund uses the open office space as point of departure, scene and container—a surface for experimentation and imagination around white-collar life. At the same time, the installation reflects on the administrative side of artistic practice and the ongoing struggle to balance the tasks that must be completed before the “real” work can begin. Recorded conversations, installation, and scenographic gestures come together to explore the overlap between art and the structures it depends on. Throughout the exhibition, Rosenlund will use the gallery space as a temporary office, where the opening hours define her working hours.
Klara Rosenlund (b. 1991) is a Swedish artist based in Norway with a BFA from the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design in Bergen, and a coming MFA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Her works have been displayed at Hjorten Sculpture Park in Stockholm, Gyldenpris Kunsthall in Bergen, and Halmstad Kunsthall in Sweden. Her work often circles around themes such as vulnerability, threats, and emotional fields of tension. The exhibition at BO is a part of her MFA from Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
