«WTF»                    

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I just found out about love. 

Do I think of myself as an analytic person? I will get clean with you, trough my inner statements, my inner feeilings about gender norms, about the right to freedom, the right to just be. Love comes in different costumes. I tell myself that the state tries its best to take care of us all, of all of us. As an artist who try to make a living, to survive on what have become a Life. I need to trust, I need to have some kind of safety, safety to make misstakes. But WTF shuold I do if I somehow lose that trust, that insurance that they will take care of me, even if i make misstakes, even tho I want obey. What the Fuck should I do then. 

 

Kamil Kak (b. 1994 Frauenstadt) is an artist exploring the intersections of queer liberation, immigrant experiences, and the fragility of recent historical narratives. Their practice is rooted in activism, using exaggeration and bittersweet humor to initiate dialogue and stimulate social transformation. Kak works across printmaking, performance, textiles, ceramics, and glass. Their work imagines a collective, utopian/dystopian future where communities confront and reshape oppressive systems or fail miserably; it reflects on the present we shape and the possibilities we can imagine — especially within today’s ecological context. Kak is a graduate of the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo, the Stockholm University of the Arts, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. Recent exhibitions and performances include KUBE in Ålesund, RAM galleri in Oslo, ARTICA Svalbard in Longyearbyen, Galleri F15 in Moss, Centre of Polish Sculpture in Oronsko, Gdańsk Biennial of Art, Survival Art Review, Narracje Festival of Art in Public Space and more.

 

Maria Pasenau (b.1994, Mjøndalen) primarily works with photography, installation, performance, and sculpture. Pasenau has gained attention for boundary-pushing exhibitions that explore taboo topics such as gender, body, and sexuality, where she directs a reflective and humorous finger at the contemporary self-staging media culture. Her expression is unpretentious, self-revealing, and seemingly unpolished and uncensored. Through her artistic practice, Pasenau highlights multifaceted expressions of what it means to be young today, where sexuality is closely linked to vulnerability.

 

The exhibition is curated by Luca Sørheim and Nora Stangebye.