Your Everyday Exhuberance

30th September - 29th of October 2021

Are We Human at Galleri Format, Oslo

Discarded clothes from strangers, manipulated by me. I feed the living parts of them and myself that remain in the fibres, our microorganisms, and I give them the humidity and warmth they crave in order to thrive. I want to get to know and see all of them. I want to get to know the monster, chimera, that we are in all our exuberance. 

Your Everyday Exhuberance takes inspiration from how microorganisms play key parts in, and influence our immune system, our brain and our genome, which all used to be biological explanations of the individual self. Humans are no longer considered to be individuals, but metaorganisms, revealed as chimera, monsters. Conversely through biology and fields such as new materialism, materials are being recognized as being lively and having agency. The line between artist, her surroundings and materials begins to blur and dissolve. Intimately entwined with our bodies and lives, clothes, and the microbes that reside within them, can be seen as monstrous hauntings of, and by, ourselves.

Second hand cotton textiles, malt nutritional agar, PCA agar, parachute cord, second hand cotton cord, second hand glass, second hand plywood, humidity in the shape of fog