Nær Fjern (Close remote)

23.02.2026 – 30.11.2026

Different venues inside Akershus County, Norway

In the autumn of 2025 Linn was invited to make a series of embroideries to Kunstvisitten, a curatorial project orchestrated by NITJA Center for Contemporary Art, which produced the series Nær Fjern (Close Remote). The series consists of five figurative embroideries touching on themes of connection through digital or analog media, as well as technology that makes human presence possible where it before was not.

Exhibition text

Distance is something that can be experienced in many ways. A state of mind, a divide in perspectives, starting points, ambitions, and motivation between different individuals. Just as physical distance can separate us from one another, social contexts can do the same.

The embroidery series Near Far depicts five scenes with one or more figures, inviting the viewer to reflect on individuals’ relationships to each other and to themselves through the surroundings and situations they inhabit.

Media communication is a recurring visual element throughout the series, represented through posters, newspapers, and news broadcasts. These media are designed to reach an audience, yet in the works they are used or experienced by individual people. In this way, the series highlights a paradox of contemporary society: collective forms of communication used within an individualized social structure. One of the works also shows how technology can create both distance and closeness between humans and other beings on Earth.

The series reflects on a society marked by increasing individualization and explores the tension between individualism and community in more or less everyday situations. Within the pictorial spaces of the embroideries, viewers are invited to reflect on how, as autonomous individuals, we perceive collective structures, and how this shapes the way we relate to one another.