Fine Art nominee

Human's conflicted relationship to nature is a central theme in Gjert Rognlis solo exhibition "The Forgotten Place"

Gjert Rognli confronts us with a brutal depiction of animals and birds portrayed as domesticated, slaughtered, or crucified. The various artworks contain bizarre interaction between humans and animals. In some works the artist is posing naked with severed reindeer heads.
Representations that brings us as viewers closer to life and death. The exhibition, which is titled, "The Forgotten Place", seems both frightening and alluring. The contrast is great between the unpleasant depictions of animal and masculine brutality, and the seductive colorful depictions of a potentially enigmatic landscape.

The force of nature is at the heart of Gjert Rognli`s art practice, he works in a wide range of media including film, photography, sculpture and performance. He often draws in references from his affiliation with Arctic Northern Norway, to light, darkness and the seasons, and the artwork floats between surrealism and mythology. Rognli has received numerous international awards for his work with photography and film, and had many exhibitions at home and abroad, among others at the Louvre museum in Paris.