In collaboration with Sandefjord Kunstforening, North Norwegian Art Centre is pleased to present Bianca Hisse's exhibition ‘Theatre of Operations’.

In collaboration with Sandefjord Kunstforening, Nordnorsk kunstnersenter is pleased to present Bianca Hisse's exhibition ‘Theatre of Operations’.

Bianca Hisse's sculptural forms can suggest blockages, borders and other restrictive forms found in national borders and crossing checkpoints. The forms are then twisted, turned, dismantled and composed into new structural forms.

By reconstructing these forms in a fictional, non-realistic approach, the exhibition explores the border as a theatrical space, a political stage for the exercise of control and domination, a set of symbolic patterns that ritualise fictional narratives of power, coercion and restriction.

Bianca Hisse is a Brazilian artist based in Oslo. Her artistic practice is expressed through sculpture, installation and choreography. She holds a master's degree in visual arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Tromsø (2019). Her work has been exhibited throughout Norway and internationally, including: Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland (2023), Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany (2023), Kunstnernes Hus (2020), MAR Museo, Argentina (2021) and Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter (2024).

Bianca Hisse's artwork delves into the cultural and social understanding of borders, both geographically, metaphorically and poetically. Through a two-channel film installation and a new sculpture series, the exhibition navigates through the performative aspects of control, as the artist seeks to uncover the choreographed language of authoritarian systems while investigating possible ways to subvert the rigid patterns of obedience through the body. The film differs from the term ‘theatre of operations’, a military term that refers to a combat zone, the area that defines the boundaries of a battlefield.

The exhibition is curated by Adriana Alves, curator at North Norwegian Art Centre.