Blue ocean, the sun hitting the water, white clouds against the horizon, the wind blowing in your hair, bare feet, sea mist. The freedom to go wherever you want, whenever you want. Not just from something, but towards something. To be an adventurer, to discover, to be free.

Sublimity is the ability of a work of art to evoke a sense of freedom, transcendence, and sublime peace of mind in the viewer. For some, a boat, or the dream of a boat, can have the same inherent power.

Andreas Meinich has been cycling around the streets of Oslo for several years taking pictures of boats – specifically boat names. His pictures are a small sample of sociological research on boat owners. Who is the owner of Gjeldfrid, Stressless or InSanity? Or Anarchy, docked at the financial district Tjuvholmen? And if a boat is a vessel of dreams and a sense of freedom, what stories and ideas about dreams and freedom can boat names invite us into?

The works in the exhibition play with the dissonance between the big dreams hinted at in the titles, and the reality of what owning a boat actually is.

It is said that the two happiest days in a boat owner's life are 1: the day it is bought and 2: the day it is sold. All the boats photographed in the series are either in port or on land, representing the fact that many boats are only in use a few days a year.

There is both humour and poetry in the images, from the artist and from the anonymous owners of the boats. At the same time, there is a melancholy that creeps in as we process the image. With A Wave From It All, Meinich lets us into a world where dreams and ideas meet reality, and they both live side by side within us.