Velkommen til utstillingen SINK & SOAP med Lorie Ballage
Utstillingsåpning: onsdag 15. oktober kl. 18.00
Utstillingsperiode: 15. oktober – 16. november 2025
Hvor: Buskerud Kunstsenter

The exhibition SINK & SOAP presents new bodies of work by Lorie Ballage which engage with water as a transformative force—both as a physical element and a metaphor for fluidity, failure, and care in the human experience.

Rooted in her ongoing project Bath Time, the installation explores the porous boundaries between function and fiction, object and body, ritual and absurdity. Sculptural elements are composed of hand-built ceramics and recycled industrial materials, forming immersive environments that invite slowness, play, and reflection. This evolving ecosystem questions the structures that frame our everyday gestures—what we discard, what we preserve, how we nurture.

Through a growing commitment to upcycling, collaboration, and scenographic storytelling, this project embodies her desire to question permanence, celebrate transformation, and build a sustainable, ever-evolving visual language.

Lorie Ballage (b. 1994 in Paris) holds an MFA from the Bergen Academy of Art and Design and a BFA from the Art Academy of Dundee. She has exhibited at, among others, Pragovka Gallery (Prague), Kunstnernes Hus, Carl Berner Projektrom (Oslo), Bergen Kunsthall, Kunstgarasjen, KRAFT (Bergen), Studio 17 (Stavanger), and the Mark Rothko Art Center in Latvia. She is based in Bergen, Norway.