ARTHEMIST lighthouse 48

ARTHEMIST Lighthouse 48 documents a year of performance actions by Norwegian artist Bj rn Ven .

Across 54 filmed gestures, 54 still images, and experimental poetry, the book becomes a ritual of transformation-an invitation to perceive beyond the surface of art and language.

Shot and written on the island of Ven ya, Lighthouse 48 merges photography, performance, text, and philosophy into a single act of creation. Each page oscillates between documentation and incantation, image and word, presence and absence.

Grounded in Ven 's philosophy of Arthemy-art as alchemy-the work challenges the commodification of art and the passive gaze of modern spectatorship.

It is not a record of art made for display, but a living archive of struggle, perception, and becoming.

Bj rn Ven (b. 1979) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans performance, photography, text, sound, and moving image. His projects have been exhibited at Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Fotografiens Hus, and internationally.