Somnolence

• Photographer
  Gjert Rognli

With the image series Somnolence i want to convey an alluring colorful representation of a mysterious landscape that conveys surrealism, mythology, religiousity and time. The photographs are staged based on nature, scenography and my history. The works are open to more questions and interpretations; Has humanity lost its proximity to the more supernatural or religious nature? A representation that brings us closer to life and death?

Gjert Rognli works as a multidisciplinary artist, with film, photography, sculpture and performance. In his works, he draws in references from his belonging to Arctic Northern Norway, to light, darkness and seasons and his Sámi cultural heritage. He takes nature and natural forces into his works with references to the surreal and mythological. Rognli has received a number of international art, photography, television and film awards for his works, and has had many separate and collective exhibitions at home and abroad, including the Louvre Museum in Paris.