Anne Sophie Lorange
Anne Sophie Lorange grew up in the U.S. and moved to Scandinavia as a teenager. With her bilingual background, she explores the notion of liminality, nostalgia and belongingness. Her narrative invites the spectator into a reflective space between inner and outer landscapes. Her artistic practice explores creative dialogs of liminal space that illuminate a pathway into identity, cultural history and personal narrative through abstraction.
Praxis Statement
Her art praxis presents sensorial experiences through abstract compositions of structure and unstructured forms, lines and colors, all communicating with one another. Through her sculptural interventions in nature she recreates the tangible existence through collecting and re-collecting found driftwood and stones along the shoreline of south Norway. Her playful assemblages weaves together sensorial experiences and the intimate feelings of childhood memories and personal trauma. Here intertwining her own nostalgic journey into a freedom of language, and an illumination of presence through a practice of returning back to the landscape. Building on the notion of liminality, she further expresses and investigates nostalgia and the feeling of the in-between through a series of abstract paintings. Here encircling sensorial experiences through structure and chaos of forms, lines and colors, expanding and moving beyond the canvas, playfully negotiating her own presence beyond the direct representation of pictorial implications. Through creating spontaneous, abstract compositions that represent both the seen and the unseen world, she opens up to a capturing of personal narrative and emotional landscape of a notion of nostalgia outside the framing of a spatial space and into an energetic force of transformation from within.
Research Interests
Anne Sophie Lorange’s current artistic practice reflects on the meaningful liminal spaces that arise between the visual space and memory, nostalgia and trauma and represent present sensorial experiences, through a personal exploration of visual narratives entwined within the practice of outdoor assemblages, drawing and studio painting. Her current research aim is to gain new perspectives from reframing narratives on nostalgia and trauma through the practice of studio painting and outdoor art installations. The research will generate new insights into the relationship between trauma and nostalgia and visuality through phenomenological investigation rooted in encountering time and space and creating works of art from a personal experience of trauma and nostalgia.
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