Linda Lamignan is a visual artist whose work seeks to step outside the idea of seeing living landscapes and elements as a resource for economic profit and instead understand them as an extension of our own bodies.
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Through video, sound and objects, Lamignan explores notions related to storytelling and translation, transformation and love. With an animistic approach, they work with materials connected to the industries, histories, living landscapes and cultural relations between West Africa and Europe. Their work has been shown in Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York (US), Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul (KR), Oslo KunsVorening, Oslo (NO), Kunsthal CharloXenborg, Copenhagen (DK) and Musée d’art de JolieXe, Québec (CA). Lamignan received their MFA degree at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and their BFA degree at the Academy of Fine Art in Oslo.
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Linda Lamignan, Petroleum Landscapes If we let it burn. 2023. Petroleum wax with pigment on wooden panel. 240 x 120 cm (each). Photo by David Stjernholm -
Linda Lamignan, Agbala Abede, 2023. Petroleum wax with pigment on wooden panel. 200 x 140 cm. Photo by Jacky Jaan-Yuan Kuo. -
Linda Lamignan, Benikrukru, 2024. Petroleum wax with pigment on wooden panel. 60 x 80 cm. Photo by Linda Lamignan. -
Linda Lamignan, Still from the work Toru Torubiri Biri (Eye Sea Water). 2023. Video, 5 min. 40 sec., 3D Lizard by Kristoffer Amundsen, video material by Linda Lamignan, Geoffrey Ogoba and Seidougha Ogoba.
