Narve Hovdenakk

Profession: video artist

Media: Video, Installation, Photography

Born: 12.10. 1971

Adress: Olaf Ryes plass 7, 0552 Oslo,

Baskemøllegt 3d 21440 Malmø

Tlf private: +4722381738

Mobiltlf: +46736460457

E-mail: hovdenakk@hotmail.com

Education

2002–2004 Konsthøgskolan in Malmø. University in Lund

Masters of fine art.

1998–2002 Artacademy in Trondheim NTNU. Bachelor in fine arts.

BKH Grant.

1994–1997 Oslo Drawing & Painting school.

1990– Instituto di lingua la cultura Italiana. Firenze Italia. Art & Language.

1987–1990 Rudolf Steiner School in Oslo.

Production / Selected exhibitions

2004 Videolounge Masters exhibition at Galleri Peep. Malmö Sweden.

Make up the Room - Movietrailers # 6 video, Group exhibition. Galleri Q Copenhagen.

2003 Movietrailers # 5 video Nordicliveart.org. Konsthallen Gøteborg and ID:I Galleri Stockholm.

2002 Talking to the Boss video. Galleri Q. Copenhagen. Nifca Memory-project.

Designed Identities video-installation. Kunstnernes Hus Oslo.

Graduation Exhibition Trondheim & Bergen.

Designed Identities video-installation. Trondheim Kunstmuseum.

Graduation Exhibition The Artacademy in Trondheim. BKH Grant.

Screening of videos Talking to the Boss and Lethal Weapon,

The Avantgarde Theatre in Trondheim.

Shooting Burbaki Panel discussion about use of teens in film & theatre.

Supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Culture.

2001 Talking to the Boss video. Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo. Grant Exhibition.

Talking to the Boss video. Nifca Gallery, Suomenlinna Helsinki.

Memory-project. Supported by Nifca.

Image:

"Talking to the Boss," 2001, video

Statement:

For the last couple of years I've reconstructed designed identities in the pop culture and played with some of the same seductive stragedies used in TV and media. This has been necessary for understanding some of popular cultures influence into our everyday life and of course to deal with my own obsessions.

A lot of my art production is a visual sampling that goes in a direct dialog with mainstream film that is pumping out on the commercial marked. I seek to seduce and destroy the narration by deconstructing the potential material and then reconstruct the narration by staging a form of critical masculinity and pop syllogism. My latest videos are about betrayal and pain. A pain that questions how it is possible to exist as an integrated individual and as a metro sexual man in a postmodern society. By playing with the cliches and being in the entertainment I am trying to give some alternative meaning. The fiction has become reality.

By screening my videos in alternative ways I want to challenge the viewers, the films can be seen as single-channel videos or as more complex video installations.