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Performance
A body enters a situation that is already speaking.
Not to illustrate, not to explain, but to stay.
To remain where something is unresolved.
Time gathers around small actions: a hand, a surface, a gesture repeated until it begins to think.

Meaning does not arrive fully formed. It accumulates. It hesitates. It leaks between what is done and what is witnessed.
The body is not symbolic. It is exposed.
It carries history without announcing it.
It moves through spaces shaped by power, memory, and expectation, and in doing so, shifts them—slightly, almost imperceptibly.

There is no clear beginning. No resolution.
Only duration, attention, and the insistence of presence.

A gesture persists.
Someone is watching.
Something is at stake.

And in that fragile interval between action and perception, another kind of knowledge appears--
not declared, but felt.
  • home
  • About/CV
  • Painting
    • Woman Painting National Identity
    • rv 555 Sotrasambandet, 2025 –
    • geoplitical landscapes 2024
  • Installastions
  • Performance
    • Woman Cleaning 2014 –
    • Anti-war 2020
    • New worlds 2017
    • Green Hijab Movement 2015 -2018
    • Soups&Stories 2012-2017
  • Public Art
    • vågsbunnen Stemmer, 2025
    • Fredsfrisen 2024
    • Luftskipet, 2006-2011
  • Theater
    • DNS 2022
    • DNS 2017
    • OSLO NYE 2023
  • Transition cards
  • TV-Series
  • Drawing
  • Photography
    • Acts of Proximity, 2026
    • Motherdust, 2013
  • Radio/podcast
  • Writing
    • press
    • reviews
    • interviews
  • Contact
  • Blog