at Trykkeriet
Birth Notes is a series of ten two-colour silkscreens on canvas, made by Linn Pedersen and Jan Freuchen during an intensive production week at Trykkeriet. The works consist of photos from the home birth of their youngest daughter, combined with enlarged versions of her own “notes” made with a ballpoint pen two years later.
In recent art history, children’s drawings have often been held up as an ideal, untainted by the stiff forms of pictograms. Once the hand has learned to draw letters and symbols, it cannot be unlearned. At the same time, pregnancy and birth have often been relegated to idealized representations and symbolic references in art, despite the defining experience it is for mother, child and family.
In Birth Notes, the artists attempt to approach these aspects with a scrutinizing and playful gaze, where pain, confusion and ecstasy are summed up in unstable photography and vital registrations.
Commission for Grønlia Barnehage, Lørenskog Kommune
2023
(Foto: Tor Simen Ulstein)
Omland at Galleri Golsa
(Photo: Christian Tunge)
New Vision, The Henie Onstad Triennial for Photography and New Media at Henie Onstad
(Photo: Tor Simen Ulstein)
At MELK, 2018.
(Photo: Tor Simen Ulstein)
