AHO Library, Oslo School of Architecture and Design.
February 21–March 14, 2025.

The iconic 11th-century northern portal of Urnes Stave Church is a hyper-reproduced heritage object. As a monument, it is maintained in the collective cultural memory by the circulation of its images. This exhibition gathers many of those reproductions from the past two centuries, inviting reflection over the question how is the monument reproduced, whilst its reproduced image also makes the monument? As an assemblage, the exhibition asks the viewer what effect does the circulation of such images have on the way we perceive the monument itself ?

Through biological metaphors of reproduction, the exhibition showed how the monument lives and evolves through its reproductions. The images were displayed between new propagations of living plants, asking; how is the portal propagated, and how does it continue to grow?