Biography
The work of Hilde Krohn Huse centres around intention, representation and misinterpretation. This takes form in narratives, created either in film or collage, or in filmed performances that become part of a digital installation. Krohn Huse’s work delves into how we are presented with information and how it can be altered depending on who or where it comes from and how the viewer interprets it. Krohn Huse focuses on how a person forms an identity or identities through the process of display and editing. Krohn Huse creates her work by being the performer, editor and viewer of herself, constructing herself for an audience.
In the piece ‘Standing Narratives’, four different narratives were created. One side consists of Family photographs and anecdotes and through the process of editing, wilful omission and visual association the narratives build within the mind of the viewer. Each viewer will created their own associations and narratives meaning the piece changes with every viewing.
In the film ‘Hanging in the Woods’ the viewer can witness the breakdown between performance and reality as the indented performance goes wrong and the performer is stuck hanging from the tree without being able to free herself or any visible means of help or escape.
The digital sculpture ‘Totem’ is an acrylic box constructed to the same hight and width as the artist and four screens each depicting a different performance by the artist. ‘Totem’ was constructed to be a doppelgänger of the artist that could exist within the exhibition space and perform in place of the original. Sadly the doppelgänger is only an after-image of something that once was and relentlessly repeated its menial performance over and over again.
