Robert Sot
Norway
Born 1959
Academy of fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland 1979-1984 (MA in 1984)
State School of Arts and Crafts, Warsaw, Poland 1974-1979
Sot is a painter, multimedia-artist and performer. He also works
with photography, installations, sculpture and drawing. In Transitions
pictures the artist takes photographs since 1998 of himself
in sleeping position against constantly changing backgrounds. In
this way he continually adds new shots to this kind of personal
diary registering him and his surroundings changing. The images
are neither totally set nor snapshots-like. They combine these two
elements giving them an aura of "freezing" or "slowing down" happening
situations. The fact is that the artist sleeps in the middle of
events puts him in special position: he awaits, dreams and maybe
anticipates forthcoming events always keeping distance to whatever
happens.
His works illustrates and registers the central points in his life.
They show the artist against changing backgrounds, socially, nationally
and geographically, a nomadic tourist-like existence.
