Renate Synnes Handal is an artist based in Bergen, Norway.

Her practice can best be described as a platform for story-telling, where big ontological questions functions as a blurry backdrop. What are we? How do we live now? How do we chose to relate to ourselves, each other and our surroundings? It is a practice that examines the political responsibility we possess as human-persons, since we freely get to decide who and what we include as important in our society.
 

Her work is based in research and when they materialize, they take form in various ways. Installations including video, sound, text, appropriated objects, drawings, paintings and performative actions. Sometimes high-tech, sometimes not. But the projects stem from the same thing: a notion of the passing of time. They are trying to grasp the ephemeral layers that constitutes a reality. Asking you quietly to slow down.

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