Ilija Wyller

Composition for piano made the 08.07.24 with dice -
The compositions are diary notations, the melody is set by casting dice and harmonising throughout the following days.

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In her paintings Ilija Wyller works thematically with landscapes in a broader sence, as an understanding of how things and objects interact with environments and how they influence each other. Experience is to her immediate and without a clear form; both spacious, flat and transitional as it unfolds. Her works are about the evidence of a seamless transition between sensation, memory, place and the subjects / objects in it. In her practice, thoughts, subjects, objects and environments are defined by their interrelations, through cooperation or opposition, equally influencing and being influenced by and through their surroundings. Wyller finds inspiration in the French philosopher Bruno Latour and his concept of time as non-linear, as a spiral. In her process this is played out in the way she is loosely basing compositions on both the situation or material at hand, what it reminds her of, and on elements of chance. The works mimic experience, in that they are made with an immediacy that is similar to experience.

In addition to painting, Wyller uses her background from classical piano to compose pieces for the cembalo. The modest interludes act as diary entries to Wyller. They are entirely made with dice, introducing incidental arrangements created through similar methods as her painting method, intrinsically linking the two. The painting exhibited in the Methodist church is based on the landscape in Lofoten, and is made specifically for the building it is exhibited in.

Ilija Wyller (b.1987, New York City, USA) Lives and works in Oslo. Wyller graduated from the art Academy in Bergen, Norway in 2015. Wyller had her first solo exhibition at VIVII in Oslo, 2014, pre-empted by a six month residency at Cite des Arts in Paris during her MA. Wyller has exhibited at Astrup Fearnley Museum in Oslo, Artipelag in Stockholm. Wyller lived in Berlin for a brief period of four years and has steadily exhibited throughout her career, participating in the Sculpture Biennale in Örebro (2018), a residency followed by an exhibition at Edvard Munch Haus (2023), a second 5 month residency at Cite des Arts (2023 / 2024) as well as participating in the Tapybos Triennale in Vilnius, 2024. Wyller is represented by Gallery Brandstrup in Oslo and BGE in Stavanger.