Crispin Gurholt
This year it is twenty years since the Norwegian visual artist Crispin Gurholt made his first Live Photo installation and AMIFF has invited Crispin Gurholt to make a site-specific Live Photo installation in Harstad. Gurholt will also have a solo exhibition in Galleri Nord-Norge, called Entrapped Moments, where he presents a selection of his photographs and video works from the past 20 years.
Since 2000, Gurholt has developed his unique form of work; Live Photo, where he challenges photography, its connection to the moment and the dichotomy between fiction and reality. Live Photos give associations to film sets, and are site-specific live installations where the artist stages people in real environments as a frozen tableau. The settings in Live Photos convey existential and socio-political themes and are located in the public or private space. As of today, the artist has created 28 unique Live Photos.
Crispin Gurholt (b. 1965, Oslo) is a graduate of the Norwegian Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo and of the New York Film School SCE. Gurholt has, among other things, participated in the Havana Biennale in Cuba and the Venice Biennale's Official Collateral Program, he has had solo exhibitions and major projects at a number of Norwegian art institutions Crispin Gurholt's artistic expression has grown through a complex background in film, theater and dance, as a lighting designer, props, set designer, director and film photographer.