About the artist

I am from the beginning a painter, and I think I still am after 5 years at the Arts and Crafts department at the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo. But things have not been turned completely upside down, the paint has not with this taken over the role of the canvas, but assumes a more unaccustomed and subordinate role in the context. The canvas remains as the overarching, not just a surface where everything possible will take place.

After a time of wonder and exploration, I invited art critic Tommy Olsson to look at my work; Out of this came several exciting conversations: "But it's also about the physical activity of making this. They are supposed to be a certain size, just enough to be insistent and impossible to overlook, and some of them also register her physical presence in the traces that arise from what we like to call coincidences. The best thing about Riseng's work is this sense of redemption, of things emphatically falling into place." Tommy Olsson.