Gina Rosvold-Haghpanah from Norway (half Norwegian, half Kurdish)
Gina Rosvold is an interdisciplinary artist who works with paint but also digital media’s like animation, exploring the human condition, psychosis and trauma, which are painted and materialised as posthuman characters within dystopian dreamscapes and universes. She abstracts the objects within these worlds in an expressionistic way, using melancholic, muted colour palettes and painting figures with exaggerated brush strokes to create surreal and dreamlike imaginations.
Dark Age__#popup:DarkAge
Eyes on me__#popup:Eyesonme
Innocence__#popup:Innocence
Serenity__#popup:Innocence
Walk in the snow__#popup:Walkinthesnow
Dark Age
This is a painting exploring psychosis, and the inability we as human have to escape our technology. We are all hooked up to a cloud, and our phones are an extension of ourselves. I wanted to explore a surreal alter universe of earth.
Eyes on me
A woman is floating in a void, Nazar (evil eye) is protecting her as she goes somewhere dark. If you flip your phone she is floating up, how do you choose to view her?
Walk in the snow
A painting featured as part of a 3 series instillation at the UCA end of year exhibition. A young woman on a walk on a snowy day, with anxious and existential thoughts.
Serenity
A woman floats calmly in a void or an ocean. Is she in danger or at peace? The viewer chooses where she is.
Innocence
A portrait of my younger sister, a homage to the difficult transition from being a child to a teenager, and how I remember that struggle myself, now as an adult.