Pilot Round Fall 2022 – From Oslo to Helsinki
Julie Olsen
I mainly work with photography and text. In my latest projects, I have combined series of photographs where I have wanted to create fictional places, with science fiction inspired text elements.
During the residency period at Mörk I worked on two projects, a photo series and a text. In the photo series, which is still in progress, I was working with miniatures which I photographed. While I was at Mörk I printed images in the darkroom, while I also made new models and photographed them.
The other project I worked on was a series of texts, in the form of fictional letters. I was thinking of quantum entanglement and «spooky action at a distance» and wanted to explore how it would be for an individual to be entangled with someone or something else. Through the letters the person explains being affected by what happened to this entangled other, and how it affects their view on events and on causality, not really knowing what has actually happened to them and what belongs to the entangled other.
Julie Olsen (1992, Norway) works with photography and text. She influenced by science fiction and the genres potential to create alternate realities. Working with analogue photographic processes is a central part of her practice, and is a way to build up new logics within her projects. Recently she has used the negative image as it appears on the film without reversing it through scanning or making prints in the darkroom. Julie Olsen recently graduated with a Master in Fine art from The Art Academy in Bergen (2022), and now lives and works in Oslo.
