Linda Lamignan

The Artists
Linda Lamignan is from Sandnes but lives and works in Copenhagen. She is educated at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. In her art, Lamignan explores themes such as migration and diaspora (groups of people living far from their original homelands), transformation, and love. Linda starts from the idea that everything in nature has a kind of soul. She works with materials linked to industries, living landscapes, and cultural relations between West Africa and Scandinavia.

Kristoffer Amundsen lives and works in Oslo and is educated at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Amundsen often works with computer technology through open-source software and custom-built programmes.

About the Art
What significance do the different objects have for you? In the room, several amulets hang from the ceiling. Each amulet has undergone a transformation from a physical object to a digital model. Then they have been 3D-printed back into a new physical form again. In this way, the objects have lost their original functions. Now they stand as symbols of our present and future.

The video work is a window into a digital underwater landscape. The sea is deeply anchored in Stavanger's history, and it has played a central role through old folklore, fishing, tourism, oil industry, and tourism. The video poses an open question about how Stavanger will relate to the sea in the future. Will the climate crisis cause Stavanger to be flooded, or will we find new ways to live in harmony with nature?

The use of digital technology to recreate a natural landscape is connected to the discovery of precious metals on the seabed in the North Sea and the possible threat this poses to the seabed's ecosystem, due to the increased demand for valuable metals for the production of new technology.