PURE FILTH (2023)

Podium and Wild Seeds, workshop, Oslo, January 2023

Galleri 69, Oslo, March 2023

The smallest Gallery in Soho, London, April-June 2023

‘Pure Filth’ is an exploration and attempted materialisation of the queerness and erotic possibilities of this monstrous condition that it is to be human. I am and you are pure filth. My desires, and my borders are made of flesh. I am and they are material. Rot, fermentation, perspiration, leaks, rifts and ejaculations sensed through pores, tastebuds, touch and odour receptors. Sensed and metabolised again by the trillions of organisms and cells that make up my human body. 

I am a heaving site of consummation, decay and reproduction of myself and other beings. I share microorganisms with others, such as my lover, but also other beings such as cows, silk moths and minks. Simultaneously sexuality and the queer has been, and still often is,  expressed through silk, fur, feather, hair, leather. They are similar to our own skin, hair and fluids, but we also respond to them as sexy in their own right, and because of what they represent to us.  Wearing the skins, cocoons and plumage of other beings, while being made up of many, where does my body end and the bodies of what I consider lover, kin, other, cloth or environment begin?

Second-hand silk, leather, fur and filling, mud, microorganisms from cow, ferret, silkworm and the artist’s own skin, artist’s own blood and hair. The glass sculptures were made by glass artist Julie Shirani Kausland at Formbar. Documentation by Annike Flo.

SMALLEST GALLERY OF SOHO (2023)

For The Smallet Gallery in Soho Pure Filth could only be seen through the gallery windows, paying homage to the many sex ecologies past and present in Soho.

GALLERY 69 (2023)

At gallery 69 Pure Filth filled the smaller room in the gallery, allowing the audience to sit down within the installation.

Supported by BKV