Title: †33T
Artist: Trygve Luktvasslimo
†33T is a project specifically created for Persbo Studio. This
umbrella title includes three components: a performance in the
chapel, an installation of drawings in the barn, and a permanent
sculpture which inaugurated the sculpture park.
The title †33T alludes to the numerological connection between
the artist recently turning †33T and that being the same age that
Jesus died.
Luktvasslimo sets the occult within navel-gazing pop culture in
relation to individual perceptions. †33T materializes the baseless
argument and exposes us and the artist to the rhetoric of
mainstream media and contemporary culture. The project takes
on an authoritarian voice which speaks in tongues; echoes in the
chapel; exhausts, motivates and questions the freedom of
choice of the common man. Luktvasslimo reevaluates trivial
gestures and articulates them with monumental reverberations.
†33T does not condemn manipulation, it allows us to balance on
the border between it and proselytization.
We wish to thank Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond in
Norway, which has generously supported this project.