Hei alle sammen, og velkommen til min avgangsutstilling, ‘bio’.
Det er en spesiell tid vi er inne i nå, og dette er trolig en enda mer spesiell måte å holde en utstillingsåpning på. Jeg skulle ønske vi var sammen her på Fyrstikktorget i dag, men det får vi ta igjen. Når livet går tilbake til mer normale tilstander, håper jeg vi kan møtes på ordentlig - og at dere kan få se denne utstillingen slik den var planlagt. Inntil da får vi prise oss heldige som har internett!

Kjære Andreas, Nina, Gilbert, Jan-Erik og Maria med familie.
Uten dere, uten den åpenheten og tilliten dere har vist meg, hadde aldri dette prosjektet blitt til det, det er i dag. Så tusen takk for at dere slapp meg inn, og lot meg bli kjent med dere.

Så, da er det bare å kose seg med utstillingen! Scrolle, titte på bilder, se videoen og skulle dere ønske å legge igjen et lite hei, gjør gjerne det i kommentarfeltet nederst på siden.

Videoen ligger øverst.
Les litt mer om prosjektet her.

- Kjersti

/ english (I am sorry for the captions, being only in Norwegian)

Hi everyone! And welcome to my graduation exhibition, ‘bio’.
It is a weird world we all are living in now, and this is probably an even more weird way to host an exhibition opening. I wish we were together today, but there will be time for that. When life goes back to more normal conditions, soon I hope we can meet properly, so you can experience my exhibition in its physical form.

Dear Andreas, Nina, Gilbert, Jan-Erik and Maria with family.
Without you, without the openness and trust you have shown me, this project would be nothing.
So thank you so much for letting me in, and letting me get to know you.

Enjoy the exhibition! Scroll, look at pictures, watch the video, and if you want to leave a message, feel free to do so in the comments section at the bottom of the page.

- Kjersti

See the exhibition, picture by picture in the video below.
Read more about the project here.

I’ve always wondered how my biological parents looked like. This need to know their faces, has crossed my mind unnumbered times. As a child, I always knew my mother gave birth to me, trough her heart, not her body. And that the stubbornness and wilderness, was something I got from my father. I grew up, always aware of the fact that I was adopted. In the fall of 2017 I gave birth to my firstborn. It made me realize that he was actually the first person, in the whole wide world - which I knew of - that looked like me. I remember when the midwife came to my bed at the hospital, showing me my boy for the first time. Something inside me just fell into place. “It’s me!”. His big brown button-eyes, his black hair and flat nose. I could see myself in everything. This was the beginning of my now ongoing project. Bio. Being adopted is so individually, becoming a parent is too. Who and what you identify yourself with can be so different to what other people might identify themselves with, and the individuality in that can be as wide, as there is people on this earth. Seeing myself in my own child, is bigger than anything I’ve ever felt. Ever. One thing is certain, something inside me fell into place and I felt I was at least one person less alone in this world. It’s almost impossible to describe. But this project, with the story of others and my own, I am going to try. Curator: Margit Bratlie Selsjord Music: Marius Armand For more: www.kjerstihegna.com

Utstilingen er åpen! / The exhibition is open!

Digital utstillingsåpning / Digital exhibition