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ERASED MEMORIES UNSPOKEN PRESENTS
Erased Memories Unspoken Presents explores the relationship between gesture, gaps, and memory, grounded in the local context and social history of Trondheim (NO), particularly around Lademoen, during the residency at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV). It consists of three interconnected projects: Binder, To Have It Said without Saying it and Sonata for a Knocking Fist.
BINDER, cyanotype and wool on Arches paper, 42 x 30 cm, 2025
Binder investigates the former Lademoen School—now the LKV building—as a site of community care and resistance. Originally built in the early 20th century despite significant opposition, the school has since become a central symbol across generations. The word binder in Norwegian translates directly as “binder” or “clasp,” underscoring the idea of being held together in unity. Fragile and impermanent materials—such as cyanotype—are employed in this project to explore the tension between ephemerality and collective memory.
Å Få Sagt Det Uten Å Si Det (To Have It Said, Without Saying It), LKV exhibition view (details), 2025
Reflections from interviews with LKV resident artists raised questions about self-sufficiency and isolation under production pressures. Studio receipts—traces of daily presence and consumption—became a medium within the LKV site, capturing the fragility and strength of that once was an educational space as a site of community resistance.
Inscribed through pyrography on thermal paper, a phrase from a post-occupation Nazi-era school speech—Å Få Sagt Det Uten Å Si Det (“to have it said, without saying it”)—echoes throughout the project. It underscores the archive’s role in preserving or missing quiet, everyday acts of resistance often absent from official histories.
To Have It Said Without Saying It, still from recorded performance, 2025
The video performance To Have It Said without Saying it reflects on silent acts of resistance during the Nazi occupation, such as the symbolic wearing of paperclips. Historians describe that uprising as “an unconditional ideological defeat of Nazism in Norway”. The weaving of paperclips embodied this quiet defiance, emphasising how small gestures, repeated collectively, can hold profound political meaning.
Sonata For A Knocking Fist, stills from stop-motion animation. Soundtrack credits Emiliano Locuratolo.
The stop-motion animation, Sonata for a Knocking Fist, began with the repeated act of knocking on LKV studios' doors during the residency —both a research method and symbolic gesture. In the animation, the raised fist—historically tied to labour, student and civil rights movements—is reimagined as a knocking hand, echoing a local story about a ghost who taps on studios' doors.
The work reflects on the pressures of productivity and repositions the artist’s studio as a threshold: a space where memory, presence, and relationships are reawakened.
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