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I was admitted into a closed system that very few have access to and where photography is normally strictly prohibited. I am investigating the meaning of these architecural spaces and the dialogue that exists in the interplay between the human being and the architectural space.




Kirsty, Palais am Funkturm, 2003, C-print, 149 x 191 cm




Svein and Elise, Villa Savoie, 2002, C-print, 149 x 191 cm




Matthew, Kino International Berlin, 2000, C-print, 149 x 191 cm




Dagalisuiten, 2013


Godfarfossen, C-print, 2013




De siste fem årene har jeg tilbrakt mye tid på husmannsplassen Heggeset i fjellbygda Dagali.

The decisive moment dissolves. The camp is the most modern in Europe in terms of architecture and technology. Heggeset har vært mitt orienteringspunkt for all bevegelse. Are these idealistic architectural spaces valid today, 50 - 80 years later? My particular interest in modern architecture was revitalized the year I lived in Paris to functionalist - socialist architecure in Berlin.

My goal was to get on the inside of the system, to communicate with the human being behind the mask, the person protected by the uniform. I usually find places of particular interest in my local environment.

mette tronvoll biography for kids

(ref. The two pictures, like two frames of the same film shot, gain a cinematic quality. The subjects have moved very slightly, but their thoughts have shifted elsewhere. It is precisely the relation between what we extract from their politically loaded surface and the subjective content behind which create the tension in this project.




Rena 10, C-print, 2006, 110 x 110 cm




Rena 16, C-print, 2006, 110 x 110 cm




Rena 22, C-print, 2006, 136 x 136 cm




Rena 27, C-print, 2006, 40 x 40 cm




Double Portraits, 1998


Guttorm I & II, 1998, C-Print, Diasec Face Sandwich, 2 parts, each 156 x 128 cm

The Double Portraits series consists of double portraits of single subjects.




Janice I & II, 1998, C-Print, Diasec Face Sandwich, 2 parts, each 156 x 128 cm




Anne Birgitte I & II, 1998, C-Print, Diasec Face Sandwich, 2 parts, each 156 x 128 cm




Einar I & II, 1998, C-Print, Diasec Face Sandwich, 2 parts, each 156 x 128 cm




Portraits and Architecture, 2002-


Eline, Villa Stenersen, 2002, C-print, 149 x 191 cm

In this ongoing series I have concentrated on making portraits of people in architectural spaces.

Dagali har betydd mye for mange besøkende i flere generasjoner, også for Jan Groth på Heggeset som i det meste av sitt liv har funnet inspirasjon for sitt virke der oppe. I am interested in how artists in earlier times and their ideas about space, spatial solutions and its proportions relate to the contemporary human being? Henri Cartier Bresson). The soldiers are masked and photographed in uniforms individualized and customized to the different combat situations they are entering; uniforms which almost appear as extensions of their own bodies.

The place functions as a stage for the person portrayed and that gives the portraits a special meaning, a context. Jeg og min familie har fått den glede å følge i Jan Groths fotspor.