Circadian Rhythms

by Anne Lindgaard Møller

”If I stand / alone in the snow / it is clear / that I am a clock // how else would eternity / find its way around”.

Inger Christensen (Lys (Light), 1962)

Circadian Rhythms are internally driven cycles happening within all cells of animals and plants. Shaped by the Earth’s rotation around its axis they make up the inner clock of the body, and are controlled by light and darkness.

The exhibition consists of a number of works based on the relationship between light and time, place and traces. Over several months, Anne Lindgaard Møller had coloured papers hanging on her windows, using the incoming sunlight as a tool to make images. The work produced, which is called Sun drawings, is a poetic investigation into the act of catching the ephemeral. It is also related to the scientific method of data collection; the sun drawings have been exposed to the local weather, touched and marked by the atmospheric conditions. The traces made an imprint to the paper, reminding us of the mutual relationship between humans and nature, affecting and being affected by one another. For Anne, it is waiting for the sun drawings to evolve like one would wait for a plant to grow through photosynthesis.

CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS is about the change of seasons, geological processes, fast and slow cycles. It is about light and darkness, the connectedness of the world.

Thank you to Erik Fallgren, Marion Bouvier, Olga Gry Becker, Jette Lindgaard, Jet Pascua, Mihály Stefanovicz, Nicolene McKenzie and Mondo Books.

Anne Lindgaard Møller (b. 1991 in Mørke, Denmark) is a visual artist who lives and works in Tromsø. Her works are often site-responsive and take their point of departure in the materiality and/or history of specific places. Process and transformation are important elements in her practice as well as language and storytelling. The shaping of her works is context-based and manifests in installations composed of moving images, photographs, text and sculptures. Anne graduated from the Art Academy in Tromsø with an MA in Contemporary Art in 2020. She received her BA at Valand Academy (Gothenburg, Sweden) and has also undertaken exchange studies at Malmö Art Academy (Sweden).