While the porcelain resembles the presence of bone and joints, the textile creates the skin of the sculptures. Like prehistoric creatures they seem to have no internal organs, no flesh, only skin and bone, skin and stone.
Built from a multiplicity of elements the works suggest the possibility of growth and movement, but in a very slow and internal way. It’s a possibility that may be in the past or even the future and that places them between fossils and living beings.The tactile quality of the works invites you to come closer, creates the desire to touch the works but at the same time to keep a distance, in an intermittent game between attraction and repulsion.
The exhibition BETWEEN in Rom61 follows Daniela Bergschneider’s residency at USF in the period of 2019/2020. Every year, the Academy of Fine Arts makes its studio at USF Verftet available free of charge, for a student at the department who concludes a 3-year bachelor's degree or 2-year master's.
Bio:
Daniela Bergschneider (b. 1986 in Paderborn, Germany) lives and works in Bergen. She has a Bachelor of Arts (Fashion-Textile-Design and Linguistics) from University of Paderborn (2012), Master of Arts (Textile Design) from University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg (2015), and Master of Fine Arts at KMD (University of Bergen), The Art Academy, Norway (2020).
Bergschneider has participated in several exhibitions in Norway and abroad, including ‘Contextile 2018’ in Portugal, ‘Årsutstillingen 2020 and 2021’ in Tromsø and Kristiansand, 'Hybrdia' at SOFT gallery in Oslo (2021) and 'MUTA' at USF Visningsrommet (2021) . Her works are represented in the collection of the KODE museum in Bergen, the Nordenfjeldske kunstindustrimuseum in Trondheim, as well as the collection of the city of Gothenburg.