_{Acrylic on plywood. Various sizes from 26×40 cm to 84×122 cm. Photo credit: Signe Guttormsen. Text: Charlotte Præstegaard Schwartz.}

In the series Am Falschen Ort, the founder of postcolonial studies, Edward Said, and his ideas (as introduced in his work Out of Place) about always being on the wrong side of power, of privileges and of the writing of history have Guttormsen pose the question whether it is even possible to separate the different aspects of time on the image surface by imagining a pre-state of an image, while viewing the actual work. Large wood surfaces with traces of running acrylic paint is cut into pieces and put together in new formations, creating notions of new spaces on the surface and encapsulating several times. The focus on the process of being several places at one time; not the wrong place, nor the right, but finding a path from the outermost layer to the bottom one, attesting to a time before the final work.