KDW opens on 19 January at 19.00 and is the first exhibition of the year at Rogaland Kunstsenter.
Knut Ivar Aaser, together with Michael Olestad Nybråthen, Runhild Hundeide and Odd Sama, shows works in a range of materials and techniques that may appear chaotic and experimental. The visual artist Aaser has invited fashion designer Olestad Nybråthen to collaborate on works that use textile and fashion techniques to make a series of ‘paintings’, where the textiles pose as brushstrokes and the canvas consists only of thin synthetic fabrics. Hundeide's sculptures are rickety metal constructions that are at once hard and fragile. Hundeide also shows two video works that use a computer program to compose songs from simple shapes. Sama's ceramic works are peculiar figures with rough surfaces, both alluring and repellent at the same time.
The exhibition is not a refined look at art, but an entry point into chaos, entropy and experimentation. The title is short for the song Kinder Diese Welt, Austria's entry in the 1985 Eurovision Song Contest, which is about the innocence and strength of children. The works in the exhibition are experimental, perhaps a kind of play with materials, but they respond to concrete conditions in the world regarding the demands and conventions placed on art, and in some cases also beyond the small sphere of contemporary art.
Odd Sama has received Rogaland Kunstsenter's production grant from Bildende Kunstneres Hjelpefond.