Egge Altena

Artist Statement

I look for the human and intimate around me. As someone that has no fixed home and very little certainty since I started traveling, I find myself looking for vessels: a house, a person, a room, an intimate human detail.

As I try to express this vision, my reality and my longing in my work, I use mostly photos taken while living and working in America. I cut them up, collage and reduce them to find some core image or images. The last stage in this process is that I translate these images into paint. I use abstraction as a way to give them space for interpretation, as art to me comes from imagination and should return the same.

Painting especially with oil colours gives me the challenge of technic and freedom of expression.