ARTISTS

WITHIN THE HORIZON
{Films}

Director
Quynh Vantu

Director of Photography & Edit
Clara Jo

Dancers
Alma Bø
Ann-Christin Kongsness
Astrid Groseth
Håkon Vadstein
Ingrid Liavaag
Jennie Bergsli
Veronica Bruce
Vigdis Storsveen

A project by  Quynh Vantu

Quynh Vantu is a licensed architect and artist from the United States with a studio-based practice devoted to spatial experimentation. Drawing from her upbringing in the “American South”, Vantu is particularly interested in the notion of hospitality and thresholds of social interaction. Working in situ she creates her works across cultural boundaries and employs an interdisciplinary practice utilizing architecture as a foundation.

She received her Master of Architecture (2009) from Cranbrook Academy of Art in the USA and her Bachelor or Architecture (2001) from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the USA. She has been awarded numerous grants and awards both nationally and internationally, including a Worldstudio AIGA Grant (2009); the Stewardson Kefee LeBrun Travel Grant-AIA NY (2009–10); and a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts (2016). She has been awarded several artist residencies, including at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska (2010); the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine (2012); the McColl Center for Art and Innovation in Charlotte, North Carolina (2014); Kamiyama AIR in Kamiyama, Japan (2015); and Nanji – Seoul Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea (2016). She was the recipient of a DAAD Stipendium to study at Olafur Eliasson’s Institut für Raumexperimente in Berlin, Germany (2010–11); a Fulbright Fellowship to study in the UK (2012–13); a University College London Scholarship to pursue a Ph.D. at the Bartlett School of Architecture (2014-2018); a finalist for the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Wheelwright Prize (2015); and named a fellow for the US-Japan Friendship Commission’s Creative Artists Program (2017).