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Edvard Skodvin & Madelon Verbeek
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Edvard Skodvin holds an MFA in Fine Art from the Oslo Art Academy, where he studied alongside Madelon Verbeek. With a background in Creative Writing, his work is rooted in text and its potential to take on visual and material forms. He is interested in how step-by-step, process-driven methods can transform both the text itself and its meaning. Much of his writing reflects on everyday life, social interaction, and contemporary culture, often reframing familiar references in imagined situations. The resulting narratives are vivid, at times dreamlike, and often shaped by an inner monologue.
Madelon Verbeek mainly works with painting (fresco, limestone painting, gouache, aquarel) and textiles. She is interested in assembling the public and the private, the personal and the political. Verbeek sees her works as 'diaristic patchworks' based on many different conversations, news messages, current and relevant issues, political opinions and private experiences. She uses a figurative, narrative language influenced by her background in art history (University of Amsterdam) where she refers to artists, works and symbols that play a key role in her practice.
Drypp is a collaboration between two artists with different practices but a shared interest in subject matter and process. Skodvin works with text, while Verbeek paints, and both draw on contemporary culture through layered narratives. Poetry—both textual and visual—serves as the common thread that connects their approaches.
Drypp is about fragments of thought, the unclear spaces in between, and how these pieces come together. It looks at balance, uncertainty, and the weight we bring with us as the titles suggests. This marks both Skodvin and Verbeek’s first publication in print.
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DRYPP (2025)
Drypp is a collaboration between two artists with different practices but a shared interest in subject matter and process. Skodvin works with text, while Verbeek paints, and both draw on contemporary culture through layered narratives. Poetry—both textual and visual—serves as the common thread that connects their approaches.
The poems included in Drypp are selected from a larger, ongoing work titled Drypp Drypp Drypp. Skodvin has previously explored ways of translating text into other media—such as video, performance, and installation. For this project, the poems have been reworked to move away from being primarily written for vocal performances, leaving it more in the hands of the reader.
Verbeek responds to the poems through her own visual language, creating a dialogue that merges image and text. The two first explored this approach during a performance at the art academy, where the exchange between their practices lead to the realisation of Drypp. Verbeek has produced 17 visual works that engage with the poems, reflecting both their references and their underlying atmosphere.
Drypp is about fragments of thought, the unclear spaces in between them, and how these pieces come together. It looks at balance, uncertainty, and the weight we bring with us as the titles suggests. This marks both Skodvin and Verbeek’s first publication in print.
