Objekter å stå ved [OBJECTS FOR STANDING NEAR]
Using LIDAR scans and 3D modelling reconstruction, ‘Objekter å stå ved [Objects For Standing Near]’ documents ordinary public fixtures in Oslo - a bus stop, a flyered lamppost, and the industrial structural work of Ann Lislegaard’s ‘In the Shadows of Trio A’ from the ALMOST UNREAL exhibition, within the Munch Triennale - and repositions them as virtual artefacts suspended between physical infrastructure and digital preservation. When extracted from their original environments and translated into fragmented sculptural scans, these structures become contemporary totems: objects that organise and reflect everyday ritualistic behaviour.
Each site acts as a behavioural anchor. The bus stop exists primarily as a space for temporary waiting periods; the lamppost, originally built and engineered as functional infrastructure, accumulates layers of posters, stickers, and public messaging, transforming into an informal community archive; Lislegaard’s artwork invites observation, contemplation, and aesthetic engagement without expectation of a further functional purpose. Although mundane in appearance, these structures shape repeated patterns of movement, interaction, and attention within public space.
By reconstructing these objects as imperfect digital models, ‘Objekter å stå ved [Objects For Standing Near]’ explores the enmeshing of tangible and virtual environments, provoking analysis into how contemporary experience is mediated through processes of archiving, and simulation. The LIDAR artefacts (composed of fragmented surfaces, unnatural geometry, unstable textures) preserve not only the objects themselves, but traces of their social function and respective contributions from human presence. Through this transformation, overlooked civic structures are reframed as monuments to contemporary urban ritual, existing simultaneously as informal documentation, aestheticism and sculpture, and archival points.