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You, me, Obama, Osama, and Omar: hiking higher into the Hindu Kush
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From Hindu Kush – To Jotunheimen


The Hindu kush is a mountain range stretching between north western Pakistan and eastern and central Afghanistan. Famous for its opium plantations and as a hideout for Osama Bin Laden and his posse.

-It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.-

Jotunheimen is a mountainous area of roughly 3,500 km in Southern Norway. Jotunheimen is very popular among hikers and climbers, and the Norwegian Mountain Touring Association maintains a number mountain lodges in the area, as well as marked trails between the lodges and to some of the peaks.

-No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.-

The exhibition connects two studio floors and presents an installation combined with paintings and sculptures made in a fast, subconscious and arm-broken manner.

-When we speak the word ''life,'' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating centre which forms never reach.-


A part of the installation on the second floor is a looped screening of the film Spring from 1987 made by the grandfather of Russian necrorealism, Yevgenii Iufit.
Spring demonstrates the precision of Iufit's structural and editing techniques. It was conceived as a manifesto of necrorealism. The film combines intuition, an interest in the unconscious mind, and shock tactics (traditions of the 1920's avant garde) with social issues of Soviet Russia.


Quotes: Antonin Artaud (1896 – 1948, Paris)

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