curated by Maria Rubersz

opening 29th of May at 7 p.m.

Videos by Hege Lonne do not reflect reality. The process of filmmaking turns white surfaces into their negative – the black abyss. As the viewer finds his fundamental points of reference called into doubt, answers to the questions about founding principles of the world, such as what temperature water starts boiling or other, cease to have unambiguous answers.

Hege Lonne’s current individual show at Czarna Gallery presents three of the artist’s video productions alongside a minimalistic sculpture representing a fragment of a body of a mountain. It is a fragment of nature, however, despite its having been formed in a long-lasting gradual process similar to the tectonic workings that shape the real landscape, it has been conceived in the mind of its creator and called into being in the form of sculptor’s solid. At the same time, though, it steals the show as the most sensual – and realistic – element. Trompe l'oeil effects blended with chaotic experiments with stone-structure imitation produce a result which seems much closer to the reality than the recording taken by means of a camera.

Hege Lonne sticks to the traditional sculptors way of dealing with a 3-dimensional form which manifests the physical aspect of the world and at the same time persistently keeps punching through the protective skin right to the other side.

Hege Lonne

Born in 1961 in Trondheim, Norway. She currently shares his personal and professional lives between Warsaw and Oslo. He has studies at The Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw and Kunstakademiet, Trondheim. He creates videos, sculptures and site-specific installations.