Selected artworks
Soli Statera
- Et fotografisk blikk på økologisk landbruk og klimaformidling
I Julie Hennings artist book setter hun fokus på de gamle tradisjonene og kunnskapen rundt økologisk jordbruk, og spesielt på urkorn. Hun har besøkt Losæter i Oslo og Aschim Vestre gård i Hadeland, som begge driver økologisk og produserer mat uten kjemisk-syntetiske sprøytemidler og kunstige tilsetningsstoffer. Verdens matproduksjon står ovenfor store utfordringer som insektsdød, forurensing, avskoging og utarming av jordsmonnet. Det tar opptil tusen år å danne noen få centimeter matjord, som er grunnlaget for omtrent all plantedyrking og matproduksjon. Kun tre prosent av landarealet i Norge er dyrket mark, og kun en tredel av dette er egnet for dyrking av matkorn.
Soli Statera betyr jordbalanse og prosjektet har sprunget ut av Hennings eget engasjement for å bedre ta vare på de ressursene vi har. Fotoboken reiser spørsmål om hva vi alle kan gjøre for å skape en forskjell i klimakampen, enten det er å dyrke mat til eget forbruk eller å bruke sin forbrukermakt til å velge bærekraftige alternativer.
Soli Statera
- A photographic gaze at organic farming and climate communication
In Julie Henning's artist book, she focuses on the old traditions and knowledge around organic farming, and especially on ancient grains. She visited Losæter in Oslo and Aschim Vestre gård in Hadeland, both of which operate organically and produce food without chemical-synthetic pesticides and artificial additives. World food production faces major challenges such as insect death, pollution, deforestation and soil depletion. It takes up to a thousand years to form a few centimeters of topsoil, which is the basis for almost all plant cultivation and food production. Only three percent of the land area in Norway is cultivated land, and only a third of this is suitable for growing food grains.
Soli Statera means soil balance and the project has sprung from Henning's own commitment to better take care of the resources we have avaliable. The photo book raises questions about what we all can do to make a difference in the fight against climate change, whether it is to grow food for our own consumption or to use our consumer power to choose sustainable alternatives.
Stills and video from the artist book Soli Statera
"Ægishjálmr" - a protective piece made from silver, copper and hessonite garnet
Paintscape - series of live painings
"Letters for my family" - exhibited in Toronto
Green Room - a co-produced art work with Ed D ´Souza showed at osloBIENNALEN 2019
‘Green Room’ becomes a conceptional, relational and interactive space in the city where passers-by are invited to sit down in conversation over a cup of mint tea. Conversations are instigated through a series of pre-designed questions that the project designers will ask participants around questions of neighbourliness, cultural traditions, social values and memories. ‘Green Room’ seeks to unite people and cultures and encourage participants to share their views with each other and to listen to the experiences and opinions of others. The ceremony of making and offering mint tea is a nod to a tradition of welcome, of sharing and hospitality to strangers while adding a sensory experience to the encounter. Mint here also symbolises a migrant history and culture having originated in Asia with an associated symbolic value of health benefits and association with traditions in many different parts of the world.
Project producers: Julie Brauteset Henning, Idunn Yr Alman-Kaas and Carina Marwell Hansen
Photos by Julie Henning from Green Room
Photos by Julie Henning from Green Room
Photos by Julie Henning from Green Room
Lydutdrag fra Green Room
En deltaker forteller om sin opplevelse av Green Rooms pilotprosjekt. Prosjektet var et samarbeid med Ed D´Souza og hans Migrant car-skulptur under Oslobiennalen 2019. Edit av video: Idunn Yr Alman-Kaas
Emblems and scenographic banners for the theatre play Harry Påtter med "å"
CD cover for Anders Lillebo's album "Departure". Background painting by: Ingrid Granrud Veiersted
LP cover of Anders Lillebo's album "Departure". Background painting by: Ingrid Granrud Veiersted
Art Activism based around animal welfare
This was part of my bachelors art project where I printed and hung my art works in the public space
The prints were hung on bus stops, trams and metros around Oslo