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Apr 19, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM

The Fonda House, Konstknektveien 68, 7374 Røros, Norway

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PRINCIPLE

An exhibition of the amazing paintings of the Southern Sami artist Niklas Blind. Through his

Through his paintings, he invites us into his experiences, thoughts and feelings of the tangible, the beautiful and the work.

which our indigenous people have lived in and of and still live with.

He makes the history of the Southern Sami accessible and understandable through his paintings, and contributes to increased

understanding, insight and knowledge of the power inherent in history

NIKLAS BLINDH – b. 1982, Funäsdalen Niklas Blindh is a self-taught artist, but first and foremost

reindeer herder. "When someone asks me what I do, I automatically answer reindeer herder. I am a reindeer herder from

morning to evening," says Blindh himself. With his very special and unique expression, Niklas Blindh takes the

Sami art into the modern era. His driving force lies in expressing in painting what he cannot

formulated through words, especially the painful and heavy. He has painted and drawn for as long as he can remember.

He excelled early on with good feedback from teachers but found that there were no paths

further in the school system for these abilities. How he became an artist is unclear to him, but he has

always accomplished what he had set out to do. And he decided to master painting; this

he should be good at it! When an exhibition was planned during Jokkmokk he got the opportunity to exhibit in

Funäsdalen and sold everything he produced. Blindh has always been a thinking person and art has

has become a channel for getting thoughts and wonder down on paper. Suppressed frustration, the pressure on reindeer herding,

on nature and culture is the source of his creativity. The motifs are influenced by his everyday life and

The reindeer plays a central role. The expression is distinctive,

a cross between abstract, cubist and figurative, a completely unique expression that takes Sámi art

into the present. Artistically he fights at the breaking point between the dark, gloomy that threatens the

the Sami future, and the life-giving, colorful things that also exist in the everyday lives of the indigenous people and

the reindeer herder's working day.

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