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Emma Serine Jacobsen
OSLO
Based in Oslo and educated as a social scientist at the University of Oslo and UMSA in La Paz, as well as a visual artist at the academies of art in Helsinki and Bergen, Emma Jacobsen works across a range of media including printing, painting, text, and drawing. Her practice unfolds in the intersection between image and poetry, emerging from a continuous exploration of how perception shapes our understanding of reality.
Jacobsen turns her gaze toward the details of everyday life—the people, objects, and spaces that surround them. Her works function as temporal portraits in which the collective and the autobiographical run in parallel. Through a combination of poetry, precision, and sensibility, she seeks what is fleeting: the present moment as it slips away, and the memories that are constantly rewriting themselves.
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Menneskene og stedene vi befinner oss (2025)
A book about encounters where observation itself is the aim. Over the course of a year, experiences are gathered from meetings with both strangers and close relations, in order to explore how time and context shape relationships and the very notion of what a portrait can be. The material moves from sketches and notes to poems, forming an archive of different translations of the same events. In this way, the project investigates the role of observation in art and how reality is perceived and reshaped, both individually and collectively.
