Norway Residency – December 1-15, 2024

“We take off from Bucharest. It’s a mild, snowless November day. We are flying to a far away northern land, surrounded by water in all its forms: glaciers, waterfalls, snow and ocean. Megan takes out her yarn and starts crocheting on the plane. Her yarn is a fellow traveller, guiding us on this journey to the center of the earth, ensuring we do not get lost. It measures our distances and our differences. What you’ll see in this exhibition is a shipmate’s journal. It’s a map of a world that we discovered in a season of freezing blue light. 

We have never been to Norway before. From Maramureș, we have a long way to go, a path strewn with images, and sensations, blending together like a dream. I haven’t seen so much snow since I was a child playing in the village where I was born. The water, the sky, the mountains, and the snow make the landscape seem unearthly. We stop in the middle of a small harbor town, Bodø, which has been chosen as a cultural capital in 2024. It’s cold and the air seems fresh and crystal-clear. We visit cities and museums and we want to understand history. To taste and smell the tastes and smells in the kitchens of the people who live here. “We’ll only eat fish,” we said to ourselves as we left. We kept our word. […]”