Anniken Amundsen is an artist working with
textile art, sculpture and photographic media.

"[...] The aspect that first strikes you about Anniken Amundsen's exhibition at Hå is the unusual use of materials: In her sculptures we find neither marble, granite, bronze or wood – she turns her back on the great, ancient European sculpture tradition and removes all the traditional materials. Instead she employs nylon, rubber, metal wire and plastic in her works.

Aided by these materials, she creates shapes that seem simultaneously both attractive and repulsive. Nylon wire, which we normally associate with fishing, catches and filters the light in a fascinating way and contributes to the beauty of these objects. But this wire also provides, together med pieces of rubber tube, associations to polyps, intestines and thread-like protuberances in shapes that seem organic, bodily, even though we can't really recognise any of them as specifically human. [...]"

Extract from Trond Borgen, "A Frightening Beauty", review of Invaders in Stavanger Aftenblad, 18 August 2003