Septentrionalis, Kunsthall 3,14 Bergen, Norway 15.nov `21-16.jan. 2022

Septentrionalis creates a tension with Morild’s previous, more iconic work in which the gaze captured something that lay beyond a self. The new paintings represent a quite other way to view the world. The perspective has moved from an external standpoint where we only see fragments detached from context. In the new work Morild has produced for this exhibition, vegetation, geography, and atmosphere are explored from within, where humans are surrounded and are a part of the landscape. This shift in perspective gives us agency in the encounter. The narrative now appears considerably more alarming and suggests how we must now understand the world. Morild implies that our relationship to the landscape must be reappraised. The situation demands that our image-world is challenged. What is the definition of value today if we don’t first base it on capital gains? What is it we search for in landscape painting? There are major contradictions in the ways of approaching terms like landscape and value today. The big question is and will continue to be: how should we look at the landscape? Malin Barth, curator Kunsthall 3,14