It is a pleasure to announce the opening of Ingrid Toogood’s exhibition, Yesterday in My Pocket, at LNM from August 8th to September 8th, 2024. Toogood, whose practice combines painting, sculpture, scenography and performance, invites viewers to experience a more pensive side of her work.

Yesterday in My Pocket examines the shifting of moods that occurs over the course of a day – from morning’s quiet to evening’s calm. Toogood has chosen a more toned down colour palette in her depictions of a day’s transitions. She writes: “I have tried to keep the colour palette muted. As though a morning mist still remains, like a veil over an unused day.”

This exhibition represents a distinct departure from Toogoods earlier works. The historical motifs and the relation between foreground and background are still present, while the playfulness and luminescent colour has been scaled down. The series consists of large paintings and sculptural elements with mirror, placed to create a reflective and calm atmosphere.

Toogood is examining themes of loss and impermanence with these works. She explains: “For me, these works are about a kind of sorrow over the passing of time, the passing of days that fade and you can’t hold onto. (…) I collect these bygone days as best I can – as many as I can fit into my pocket.”

In this exhibition the two sculptural paintings, Open Window (Day), and Open Window (Night) provide a frame for the works and invite personal reflection. Between these “open windows” we find five paintings which together form a timeline of shifting moods over the course of a day. With its muted colours and simplified forms, these works give the viewer space to reflect over the passage of time, and the small instants that give life meaning.

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Ingrid Toogood (b. 1976, Sola, Norway) is educated at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO), institute for color (2002). Her latest solo exhibitions include “The Four Chambers”, Tou (2023), “Spending time with my cat”, ISCA Gallery (2021), “Brother and Sister”, KinoKino (2020), “Brist”, Elephant art gallery (2018), “You are beautiful. You are alone", Kristiansand Kunsthall (2015), and she participated with the work "L Longed for It" at the opening exhibition of the National Museum in 2022. In 2023 Toogood carried out two large outdoor art projects at Varmen and Schancheholen fire station in Stavanger. Toogood's work has been purchased by, among others, KORO, Stavanger Art Museum, the University of Oslo, Haugesund Billedgalleri and St. Olav's Hospital in Trondheim.

The artist would like to thank the Arts and Culture Norway for supporting the exhibition.

Link to exhibition text by Heather Jones