Issy Wood transforms imagery from the internet, advertising, and popular culture into paintings that both entice and unsettle 🙌🏼
Wood creates carefully composed, atmospheric works that explore desire and power, vulnerability and objectification. Through a distinctive and understated humour, she imbues her motifs with an uncanny presence that speaks to contemporary aesthetics, consumer culture, and emotional life.
At Kistefos, a wide selection of new and earlier works comes together to reflect the playful, slightly disorienting rhythm of Wood’s associative logic. Set against the industrial backdrop of Nybruket Gallery, the works take on additional resonance, prompting reflection on shifting relationships between objects, value, and identity.
Experience Fish, Fish, Duck by Issy Wood at Nybruket Galleri until 11 October.
The exhibition is curated by Live Drønen and Kate Smith-Raabe.
Photo: Tor S. Ulstein