The room red, like the inside of a dying brain ... like when a dying person gets their first glass from the well of knowledge and even the dumbest among them knows more than us ... the surrender, emptied of innocence ... the eye sockets of the dead and spaces between the ribs will scrutinize "the ordinary person" and the one who "breathes", becomes the grotesquely deformed, an imperfect fusion of power, "forces that will what the others will," where the dead are the only "forces that will themselves".
Excerpt from Anders Brenno's text: How to witness a conversation between the dead, 2023.
USIKKERKUNSTJENTE steps into the role of curator. She allows herself to be inspired by the bartender’s expertise with flavour combinations. It is a cocktail in perfect balance between sweetness, acidity, and bitterness, and finally, a zest for aroma. All ingredients can be consumed separately, but in the mixture, something remarkable happens.
She chooses to highlight artists she admires and looks up to and to explore new connections that arise in the encounter between the artists. In her new role as curator, USIKKERKUNSTJENTE thinks about the crime novel “The Thin Man” by Dashiell Hammett, where detectives Nick and Nora "solve murder mysteries over cocktails". Inspired by this fiction, USIKKERKUNSTJENTE is split into the two characters Nick and Nora, to solve a curatorial mystery in such a manner. The goal is to highlight the artworks and artists through a mysterious blend of murder, true crime, and horror with a hint of 1930s cocktail aesthetics. USIKKERKUNSTJENTE presents the exhibition NIC N´ NO with the artists Kristina Austi, Anders Brenno, Mattias Härenstam, Linda Morell, and Ingrid Torvund.
More about the exhibition: https://www.trafokunsthall.no/usikkerkunstjente
