CAMILLE NORMNET EXPLAINS HER PROJECT, RAPTURE, AT THE NORDIC PAVILION OF VENICE BIENNALE 2015

Camille Normnet, one of the most important and reowned contemporary artists in Norway has been selected to present her project, Raptures, at the Nordic Pavilion during the Venice Biennale 2015.

 

Normnet, inspired by a quote according to which music lives in the span between poetry and catastrophe, attempts to produce a space full of this in-between tension, where people would walk through and feel this sense of trauma or fragmentation by using a glass glassarmonica (actually invented by Benjamin Franklin) that emits a sound very similar to the backbone of digital music.

 

Furthermore, Katya Garcia-Anton, director of Office for Contemporary Art Norway, explains the reasons why she chose Normnet to represent the nordic pavilion countries in Venice. Normnet was praised for her unique way of looking into the past, into the ancient cultures and history and at the same time, explores the present in an innovative and poetic way which produces a widely fascinating result.