Honorable Mention
As I walked through the night, I knew something was waiting for me.
DESCRIPTION
The artwork carry with them the intangible cultural heritage Rognli learned about while growing up in a Sea Sámi village in Northern Norway. In his work processes, he focused on several indigenous perspectives that he wanted to influence his work, as well as shed light on our fragile present and future. Through his works, he illuminates themes such as holistic nature management, about creating an understanding of nature's mechanisms, functions, vulnerabilities and that we humans are an inseparable part of nature.
And how people's interaction with nature affects and shapes the legacy of future generations. The intangible cultural heritage has been a supporting part of Sámi culture, a culture that has been developed and refined through millennia of interaction between people's living conditions and the forces of nature. A legacy that was carried on through storytelling: how to read nature and its powers to survive in a harsh climate, but also through the mystery of nature, and how it could provide healing.
AUTHOR
jert Rognli works as a multidisciplinary artist, with film, photography, sculpture and performance. In his works, he draws in references from his belonging to Arctic Northern Norway, his Sámi cultural heritage, to light, darkness and the seasons. He takes nature and natural forces into his works with references to the surreal and mythological. Rognli has received a number of international art, photography, television and film awards for his works, and has had many separate and collective exhibitions at home and abroad, including the Louvre Museum in Paris. And his films have had the opportunity to contribute their message at the international environmental conference COP27-2022 in Egypt and COP28-2023 in Dubai. 