Visitors 2014

Bodil Furu is an artist working with documentary filmmaking where abiding humanistic questions meet current concerns of globalization and the mediation of reality. In her film ‘we meet people who reflect upon their role and significance in the society they are part of – people with a vastness of different stories and cultural backgrounds’, presented as an ongoing study of the way in which reality is formulated and represented. Furu's work has been presented at the 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014); the Lubumbashi Biennale 2013, Lubumbashi; the Democratic Republic of Congo; Beaconsfield Contemporary Art, London, UK (2012); Kunsthall Oslo (2012); Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø, Norway (2012); Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, Germany (2012); The MIT List Visual Arts Center (2010); the Festival International de Film et Video de Création, Beirut, Lebanon (2008); 'Documentary Fortnight Expanded' at MoMA, New York, NY, USA (2007); The 10th Istanbul Biennale, Turkey (2007) and the Busan Biennale (2006). Furu holds a MA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.