No. 011
Kari Anne Helleberg Bahri
You can’t beat it
106x60x14cm
Mixed media
2025
In Norway we have an expression: «et hestehode foran(= in the lead with a horses head) - in English they don‘t have the same idiom, it would be something like «to be a nose ahead». In business life it is important to stay ahead. The male suit - the business world has been associated as a man's world.
The horse's characteristic is often applied to male strength, hard work etc. The garments form the shape of a horse head, the tie shows movement.
About the Artist
Kari Anne Helleberg Bahri
（Norway，b. 1975）
Kari Anne Helleberg Bahri (Norway, b.1975), graduated from the National Academy of Arts in Oslo. Growing up in an environment full of creativity in childhood, Kari Anne escaped from the typical Norwegian minimalist style, inherited the melancholy and cold temperament of Northern Europe, using old clothes, rags, and fragments of fabrics, restitched them and created her own language in textile art. Focusing on the theme of limitations, expectations, regulations, and isolation, these are the subject the each individual confront in the collective society. Kari Anne had exhibited in Kunstmuseet Nord Trøndelag, Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum in Norway, and Socle Du Monde Biennale in Denmark. Her works are permanently collected by Kongsberg Municipality, Den Norske Husflidforening and many other important institutions.
