Kongsberg Kunstforening presents Anna Sofie's solo presentation Wood Winds' as this year's Jazz Festival Exhibition.

For the last year or so, Anna Sofie Mathiasen has been making sculptures inspired by weather stations. Mathiasen has, with the help of her father Peter, been building these forms from old wood, tools, and pieces of furniture; objects stripped of their utility, their forms and details now co-opted into new sculptures. Anna Sofie and her father use items in the shapes they already assume and collage these shapes into assembled, sculptural forms.

Mathiasen's works have been given titles such as ZEUS1912, DAD4550F, TOR0305S, like the naming conventions of NASA projects (Apollo, Mercury, Gemini). As a group, however, the artist refers to her weather stations as "feelers" (echoing the name of her father's band, "Feelings"). Like the antennae of an insect, these structures purport to "feel", register and record the weather.

During long summers spent at her family's summer house in Odsherred, about an hour's drive west of Copenhagen, Mathiasen began to notice these structures standing awkwardly in otherwise idealistic and bucolic landscapes. She felt that as records of the environment, these structures could also be read as landscapes. She began drawing them during some extreme summer storms. In this age of deliberately obtuse and opaque technology,.

Mathiasen was attracted by the weather stations' legible and tactile technology, and also by their obviously anthropomorphic, charismatic qualities.

These weather stations are narrators, harbingers- forewarnings of something to come.

Silent witnesses to both human progress, ingenuity and data collection but also hubris and destruction. They are oracles. Day by day they bear silent witness to the weather.

Intermediaries that disarm an otherwise serious conversation.

Text by Martin White