top of page
A SAILING SCULPTURAL INSTALLATION IN CONCRETE
BY SCULPTOR MARIT BENTHE NORHEIM
Meta Norheim (b. 1934. Norway, Iran, India, Zambia, Botswana)
Motherhood, creativity and vision
is Norwegian and lives in Norway, but has traveled and lived in Iran, India, Botswana and Zambia due to my father's work as a civil engineer. Being my mother, she is, in many ways, the source of the project Life-boats and its general idea. She lost her mother when she was born. Being mother and grandmother, therefore, has been supremely important to her. She’s a painter and her travels have given her an open and unprejudiced outlook. She has often sung a children's song about “many are different, but inside we are alike”. In relation to the religious, she quotes: "In my Father's house there are many rooms.” Through a symbolic use of all kinds of growths, she addresses aspects of the course of life as fertility, love, old age. The sculpture portrait has we, the three daughters, placed under her protective breasts. We each have our respective children attached to our bodies as a family tree. On the other side is my grandmother’s decorative pattern, which comes out in my mother’s simple painterly form.
interview with Meta on her own language - Unknown Artist
00:0000:00
Working sketches of Meta
Three dimensional figurehead of Meta
Relief from the other side
bottom of page