Erle M Kyllingmark

Erle M. Kyllingmark (b. 1974) is a Norwegian camera based artist working with still and moving images. Since finishing her BA at London College of Printing in 1999 she has explored various areas within the photographic practices. Ranging from editorial photography to documentary filmmaking. The film Life is goddamn wonderful earned a nomination for best TV documentary at Gullruten in Norway in 2009. Her video-works also include two major video installations for The Norwegian Opera & Ballet. The last years have seen her focusing on exhibiting her still images in several Norwegian galleries. She is currently taking part in the photographic group project Norwegian Journal of Photography, a book to be published in 2023. For 2024 she is working on a new project to be exhibited in Oslo.

Kyllingmark’s projects are driven by existential questions about what shapes the reality we live in, treating the subject matter in her own poetic visual language. Her work questions our assumptions of existence, how we perceive time, place, and identity. Striving to challenge the viewers perception of reality. She works with analogue photography making multiple exposures in the camera on negative film, continually going deeper into the technical and the intuitive way of balancing several images up against each other. This technique creates multiple motives in each image for the viewer to discover.

“The work is born out of my need to see the world in alternative ways”