Anne Tveit Knutsen

PARADIS

In 2004, I graduated with a master’s degree from Bergen Academy of Art and Design. I previously trained and qualified as a nurse, and this influences my work as an artist. In my art, I focus on people in different life situations, and I believe fervently that society should meet everyone with the same respect, regardless of their resources, life situations and positions. People I meet, as well as relationships I experience and injustices I see, motivate me to make art. Especially the people who never shout the loudest. I express myself mostly through video, film and artist books.

In my artistic practice, I devote a great deal of time to the relational aspect, and to process these encounters, I reflect on and “re-experience” them through various materials, whether it be making my own paper, sewing books, embroidering, and so on. I also actively use mail art as one of the methods for fostering a sense of security and trust among the people who participate in my projects.

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Bird of Paradise (2025)

ISBN–978-82-94024-02-5

Bird of Paradise is an artist's book that explores what it means to flourish as a human being, even in the face of serious illness or disability. The book is based on my meeting with florist Rikhard Rune Juuhl. The book has texts from both an art and nursing perspective, and is in Norwegian and English.

As Herdis Alvsvåg write in her text in the book: "Caring for identity. Being objectified, treated as an object and not as a subject, harms us, violates us. The power we have is taken from us. We wish, and expect, to be met as human beings, as who we are. But who are we, and what creates our identity?"

Tvillingsong (2021)

ISBN–978-82-690989-5-2

The book is based on audio recordings and conversations made during the development and production of the film *Tvillingsong*. In the book, we gain insight into Eli and Toril’s unique form of communication, which I have chosen to call “twin poetry.” Chinese is a written language I do not understand, just as I have not understood all the communication between Eli and Toril. Ben Wenhou Yu has translated the text into Chinese, and I have then illustrated the twin poetry.

What I understand, I write. What I do not understand, I draw.

Toril’s statements are always on the left-hand page, Eli’s on the right. The book is illustrated with Eli’s colorful drawings. She almost always draws on the entire sheet. The book is in landscape format, and Eli’s drawings unfold to A4, their original size. All the books are the same inside, but there are five different drawings/versions of the cover.

Text: Eli Kristine Moldstad and Toril Vibekke Moldstad

Illustrations: Eli Kristine Moldstad

Foreword by Olaug Nilssen.

Produced in collaboration with designers Yilei Wang and Yanrong Pan

Kinakaal Publishing, Bergen

Film stills: Photographer Kieran Kolle

Norwegian/Chinese

am i too loud? (2021)

ISBN–978-82-303-4921-2

The book Am I too loud? shows my most central works, both from the series Am I too loud, but also other earlier works, with clear relevance to the theme.

Since I had primarily worked with film and video before publishing this book (my first), my aim with this publication was to provide the viewer the opportunity to see my work in a new context. The book format gives opportunities that film and video do not provide.

In addition to my own, there are external texts by, among others, Kjetil Røed ("Pictures that liberate. About Anne Tveit Knutsen's art") and Kari Martinsen ("The listening conversation").

Design:Slow Design Studio

Hardcover, open spine with thread binding. Embossed title and dirt cover.

The book is bilingual in Norwegian and English

Size: 250 x 200 mm. 256 pages

Hun sa (2025)

ISBN–978-82-694464-0-1

“Hun sa” is a small book (fanzine) with a print run of 50 copies. The typewritten texts are accounts of some of my mother’s experiences during the war in Norway. My mother was ten years old when the war ended in 1945. The texts are in Norwegian.

This publication is part of the project “My Roots.” When I encounter

other people’s vulnerability in my practice, I force myself to reflect on my own feelings and background that I can relate to the project.

Til Far (2023)

“My Father's Documents”

My father and his Alzheimer’s disease are the inspiration for this work. He tied handkerchiefs together and placed the important documents on the bookshelf. Through this act, he helped me see men’s handkerchiefs in a new light and appreciate certain aspects of the disease. This “book” consists of loose sheets bound together with twine. Only one copy exists.

I made the paper from my father’s textile handkerchiefs.

Til mor (2017)

Blomkarse (nasturtium) (2026)

A new version of this is currently in the works. That's why I don't have any pictures to show yet.