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Tonje Bøe Birkeland “The Characters”

In her series The Characters, women gain a position in the landscape, and the artist herself seeks the authenticity of history. In these performances, female explorers are located in the Unknown Territories. While the romantic motifs of the man-wanderer in art have been well documented, in Birkeland project the characters are female. Her heroines move…