Peter Höll/ Songül Boyraz 
Songül Boyraz/ Peter Höll 
/Felipe Mujica 
Johanna Unzueta
Felipe Mujica (CL/US), Johanna Unzueta (CL/US), Songül Boyraz (TR/AT), Peter Höll (AT)
February 2017
The first team included Felipe Mujica, Johanna Unzueta, Songül Boyraz and Peter Höll: two sets of husband and wife pairs who regularly work together on projects. Together these four artists did set the stage for future projects by other artists involved in Find Your Eyes.
On Sølyst, Find Your Eyes works with the existing landscape to generate a social environment where artists have the opportunity to create work in conversation with one another. Curating programming on Sølyst means embracing the elements. Taking inspiration from the nature and hidden treasures, such as the nature walks and newly planted garden on the island, the curator Monika Wuhrer has curated a program of artists interested in collaborating with the local community and the island itself.
While some work was visible from boats or cars, other work was discovered by curious hikers who listen and look carefully for interventions. Each of the four artists selected for the inaugural program placed a strong focus on installation, light and participatory projects influenced by artistic, social and political movements. Find Your Eyes did engage the Stavanger community in contemplation about the effects of political and social history on nature, diversifying and enriching the town with an array of artists from different geographic and political climates.
On an island that demonstrates a sharp contrast between nature and the industrial, Felipe Mujica and Johanna Unzueta work with oppositions–indoor and outdoor, nature and industry–to experiment, creating work that interacts with the environment. Mujica works with 2 women, Harbia from Syria and Faisa from Palestine, to embroider textile and explores divisions and instability, creating projects grown from geometric abstraction. For Mujica, the devices of image-making are simultaneously an historical set of references and a set of creative tools. Unzueta’s work examines the technological, historical and social implications of labor, exploring production through the handmade and industrial. Through explorations of divisions and imbalance, their collaboration questions the perception of art and labor, inciting reflection on the possibilities of collaborative public spaces.
The second pair of collaborators, Songül Boyraz and Peter Höll, create a project exploring the lives of refugees and social outsiders through work that focuses on the lives of individuals and personal relationships. In Stavanger, Boyraz and Höll connected with a diverse group of kids for extended programming during their project. The artists develop work on site, enhancing the natural environment through connections with local residents. By connecting the hyperlocal to broader issues of global inequality and the refugee crisis, Boyraz and Höll encourage visitors to disconnect from their everyday habits to explore underrepresented facets of global crises, local politics and personal experience.
Felipe Mujica:
So We Faced With The Problems of Conversation (Google Translate)
“My work has grown from visual codes linked to geometric abstraction, where the economic devices of image making are simultaneously an
historical set of references and a set of creative tools. Also important in my formation has been the practice of collaboration as I constantly intertwine my own work with the work of others through the organization of exhibitions, group projects, publications, and so on.”
Johanna Unzueta:
Untitled (felt , screws and found materials)
Untitled (textile, charcoal)
Untitled (textile)
Johanna Unzueta 
“Through sculpture and installation, I intend to bring into discussion the notion of labor. On a first layer its technological, historical and social impact on the human condition and on a second layer its relationship to nature. How I manipulate these materials is as important to me as what is being represented. In this sense the notion of labor does not only exist in a social and historical context, it is present in the fabrication of each artwork as everything I do is handmade, hand sewn, made by myself. The pieces I construct are based on architecture and on industrial elements and objects. My interest in architecture is focused on its symbolic condition, its representation of progress and human development. My interest in industrialized artifacts and machinery is tied to the notion of production. These objects, tools, and industrial type constructions present a physical aspect – that of its possible manipulation or use.”
Songül Boyraz and Peter Höll
Re/Connect
Allah korusun: Paint on paper (Work in collaboration with Stavanger school children. Allah korusun [God forbid] was translated into the children’s native languages and painted as lifesaver rings by them, cut out and wheat pasted all over the island.)
“The Project is composed of multiple components: We, as an artist couple, are bringing a piece to Stavanger that has travelled the world and has been exhibited in multiple settings. The work is called Allah korusun / Gott behüte (paint on life preserver ring, 65 x 65 cm). The object is a life preserver ring with the words “Allah korusun“ (God Forbid). Songul Boyraz, a native Kurd in Turkey, and Peter Hoell, an Austrian native, have had many interactions with refugees, in Istanbul as well as in Vienna. As refugees or immigrants are often trapped in their environment without much exchange with citizens of their new countries, Boyraz and Hoell are bringing together the refugees and norwegian school kids (between 12-18 years old) to discuss the project and in a workshop paint the posters in 4 languages (norwagian, kurdish, arabic and english). Posters will be wheat pasted on various spots.
Peter Höll and Songül Boyraz
Gud Bevare: Paint on wooden boat (Work in collaboration with Stavanger boat industry)
“The next step was to find an old vessel and name it after the rescue ring in Norwegian „Gud Bevare“. Jacob Hunsbeth collaborated with us on the Boat idea. He was open to the performance, had a vessel and actively participated. Thank you!“