Liv Bugge uses mixed media, primarily video, to investigate the concept of violence and aggression as forms of energy that can both build and destroy. Repressive violence is what keeps inmates inside their prison cells, leaving behind casts and traces of their confinement. Anything can be viewed in terms of repression and constriction of behaviour: from colonisation and gender to the natural process of fossilisation. Bugge’s installations feature actual fossils that make us question what was, and what forces repressed and compressed nature into what is left.
