Curators in a world of visual expression

2014
video and photographs
Toft Honerud

Et friminutt fra den menneskelige tilstand

2012
(Recess from the Human Condition)
video, performance, essay
Toft Honerud

These are the moments we really live for

2012
video, photographs, sound, performance
Toft Honerud

I love you

2011
5-channel video innstallation
Toft Honerud

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Rough seas

2011
photographs
Toft Honerud

In solidum

2010
HDV video, 09:00 min

Komposisjoner i rødt hvit og blått

2010
(Compositions in red, white and blue)
2-channel video installation, HDV video, 07:14min

You'll never walk alone

2-channel video installation, 06:00 min

Je fais mes plans de bataille avec l’esprit de mes soldats endormis

HDV, 24 min loop, 2009

The title for this work is from the film director Robert Bressons book Notes for the Cinematographer where he uses a quote from Napoleon Bonaparte to describe how he related to the models of his films. The reference to filmic time is central as the moon entering and exiting the picture frame, marks the beginning and the closing of the narrative composed by the camera. The cameras motionless observation makes us aware of the earths rotation and the passing of time. The title also suggests the moon as a controlling force in our excistence.

Sympathy for the Devil, MA-students exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Oslo

That which joins and that which divides is one and the same

2008
DV, 9 min loop

Vista

10x c-type print, 40x40cm, 2004

Tourism that is concerned with visually consuming the physical environment and it’s inhabitants is likely to be preoccupied with remaking this as objects for endless reproductions of this gaze. In this typological series of photographs Toft have positioned herself within the picture frame when tourists photograph themselves in front of the Edinburgh Castle; the most popular tourist attraction in Scotland with more than 1 mill visitors each year.

The work is part of the project PROSPEKT and was also shown in the group exhibition PROLOGUE II at Republic Gallery Vancouver, 2006