Mette tronvoll biography of michael

The artist Mette Tronvoll (b. 1965 in Trondheim) follows the people, who sit for her portraits, into their own habitat that is at the same time their professional space: Japanese women collecting kelp on a rocky shore, nomads in the wide steppe of Mongolia, young and old in the hot springs of Greenland or elite soldiers of a secret unit in the depths of Southern Norway.

Each to their own, they form an allegiance in Tronvoll‘s photographs, an allegiance that includes their nourishing as well as threatening environment.

Since the end of the 1990s Tronvoll has worked in the open air, seeking out people on the edge of civilisation where they work and live in isolation.

Entering into a personal relationship with them, the artists evidently wins their trust. They seem to stop and listen for something alien to them that does not frighten them but seems to arouse their curiosity and to cheer them.

Since the end of the 1990s Tronvoll has worked in the open air, seeking out p