Ulla Schildt “Cooperative Approaches (Wild Roots)”

Through different media, the artists explore systems that shape contemporary life, from historical documentation, climate governance and ecological transformation to technological infrastructures and imaginaries of the unknown.

Moving between the material and the speculative, and between political language and poetic thinking, the exhibition asks how global structures shape our lives and how we relate to the world around us.

“The starting point for the exhibition is the climate summit in Glasgow in 2021, often referred to as COP26. One of the main outcomes of the summit was the urgency of following up on the guidelines established during the Paris climate agreement in 2015, where all UN member states committed to limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The agreement aims to prevent the most severe consequences of climate change, including extreme weather events, rising sea levels and the loss of biodiversity,” explains the artist.

Ulla Schildt (b. 1971) lives and works in Oslo. Schildt has studied photography at the Dublin Institute. She has exhibited widely in Norway and internationally. Her works have been acquired by, among others, the University of Oslo’s Art Collection, the OsloMet Art Collection, the Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation, the Møller Collection, the Art Collection of Region Skåne in Sweden, the Office of Public Works in Ireland, and the Preus Museum in Norway.

Her work has been supported by the Sasakawa Foundation.