Beaver Hotel focuses on woodcraft—fallen logs and carving. The beaver serves as an allegorical symbol of her passion for carving through wood, exploring its organic pathways and hidden pockets. The sculptures represent a striving to understand the beaver’s position in the landscape through craft techniques and concepts rooted in Nordic ecologies, while also keeping in mind the local historic traditions of carving with a playful and organic approach to handling materials.
The wood used in this exhibition was sourced from piles, and as she carried each piece to her studio, she reflected on their strength and life purpose, which inevitably involve both wood and water. The ever-flowing water, especially in today's climate crisis marked by increasing floods, positions the beaver as a potential key player in alleviating the pressure on waterways. Thus, this exhibition serves as a hymn to the beaver as a creature, expressed through her own human creativity. One of the wooden sculptures includes a moving image film featuring clips of the local landscape, combined with music composed by the duo Helga Myhr (hardingfele) and Tanja Orning (cello). The experimental sounds emanating from strings of animal hair on wooden instruments resonate with the mystery of nature—the mountains, the rain, the myriad of life, and what lies hidden from human eyes.
