The Red-Eyed Dogs

Dark brown red-eyed dogs are lying around, some are whole, and some are smashed into pieces. They are placed in different directions and looking in different directions. Wooden white floor, white pillars. It's a large exhibition room with two white-edged pillows from floor to ceiling. All dogs have red eyes.
Dark brown red-eyed dogs are lying around, some are whole, and some are smashed into pieces. They are placed in different directions and looking in different directions. Wooden white floor, It's a large exhibition room. All dogs have red eyes.
The Cotton Factory Building in Arendal. Front of building and side part in red brick. Very structural with three floors, rows of windows and a few doors at the bottom floor, Green grass and driveway in front, some tree on the left side and in the background. Some electrical lines visual over the roof. Blue sky. One little happy cloud on right side.
Dark brown red-eyed dogs are lying around, some are whole, and some are smashed into pieces. They are placed in different directions and looking in different directions. Wooden white floor, white pillars. It's a large exhibition room with two white-edged pillows from floor to ceiling. All dogs have red eyes.
Dark brown red-eyed dogs are lying around, some are whole, and some are smashed into pieces. They are placed in different directions and looking in different directions. Wooden white floor, It's a large exhibition room. All dogs have red eyes.
The Cotton Factory Building in Arendal. Front of building and side part in red brick. Very structural with three floors, rows of windows and a few doors at the bottom floor, Green grass and driveway in front, some tree on the left side and in the background. Some electrical lines visual over the roof. Blue sky. One little happy cloud on right side.

October 30, 2021 – May 15, 2022
The Red-Eyed Dogs at the Cotton Factory (Bomuldsfabriken) Art Hall, Arendal, Norway

Inghild found a red-eyed dog souvenir at the market in Brazil in the mid-nineties and realised that this graceful dog would prove to be an archetype in the knick-knack industry when she found similar figures in both Italy and Russia. During her stay in São Paulo, she began to develop the idea of enlarging this archetype of the dog and Madonna figures into a more monumental format. Her interest focused on the popular distribution of the objects and their ritual and religious function. How do souvenirs take on the function of vessels for emotions, idealisation, and worship? And how are the visual design and imprint of mass production reflected in the figures when they are enlarged?
Then, the souvenir might just be forgotten and left to degrade.

The fragmentation and gradual disintegration of her Red-Eyed Dogs sculptures at the Cotton Factory may symbolise a sort of unrest. Simultaneously, it may also represent transience: something is breaking, shattering, or being crushed into ruins. Their red eyes express an alarm, alluding to suffering, protest and unrest.

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