Normality showed through layers of realities
Because of individual understanding there is never really one reality. Therefore reality should always be understood as layers of understandings in different contexts.
As the work itself is physical and present, it is considered reality. It is therefore not illustrative of something that once existed (memories are questionable) neither does it symbolise a story. Because when something is presented as a story it is taken out of reality, and is therefore not happening. Instead it represents an opportunity or possibility for change in an individual as well as collective reality.
My work originates from those moments of coincidence where realities join in a collage to speak of a second or parallel understanding. Often this creates a cultivated naïveté, since working with the extraordinary in the ordinary happens to bring out this sly abnormality.
Certain rawness can appear in communication. Especially when a link to an uncensored fantasy appears, as for example when a child speed-talks, in a direct but not always understandable language. An awareness of how one communicates and experiences reality awakes my interest in curious ways.
- Ditte Knus Tønnesen, Glasgow 2008