Mie Olise
Into the Pyramid (2008)

Horsebridge Arts & Community Centre, Gallery 1
10:00-18:00 Tuesday - Sunday

In 2007 Mie Olise travelled alone to an abandoned Soviet mining town known as The Pyramid, just by the Polar Circle. She wanted to examine the architecture of the abandoned society (a Russian communist utopia, on Norwegian ground left in 1998, now a ghost town) and the mine workings. In the summer of 2008, Olise returned to the site, this time with a professional film photographer and on a grant from the Danish Art Council. She lived in the city for several days, with a gunman at her side, as polar bears can attack at any time.