Fimbria: Tina Polsangi Athari & Vilde Marie Birkeland

The newly established artist duo Fimbria consists of architect and computer scientist Tina Polsangi Athari, who has a background in interactive digital installations and architectural practice, and Vilde Marie Birkeland, a costume designer and textile artist who focuses on craft, materiality and scenography. Fimbria explores spatial experiences through sensory, audience-oriented installations, with a particular emphasis on traditional crafts, climate and the tactile.

During their stay at Bergen Kunsthall, Fimbria will develop a project based on the folkloric period known as the dog days. This period is a time associated with heat, unrest and transitions. Using textiles, projections and sound, the project examines how old superstitions, notions and interpretations of the environment reflect our time’s unrest and unpredictability in the encounter with nature and society.