«Servitude» by Emil Finnerud opens on Friday, August 8th at 19:00.
August 8th - August 24th
Open Thursday - Sunday 14:00-18:00
WHY DOES THE LOOP CONCERN YOU?
Because I’m trapped. I am trapped in a silent servitude, a willing slave to the relentless system of my own making, chained by invisible currents of expectation and validation, where every breath I take is dictated by unseen forces demanding my performance, every movement choreographed to feed an endless hunger for approval that consumes my soul while convincing me I am free. Optimized to death but never free. Lean and hungry but never light. Wearing a mask that never comes off, like a cog in an endless machine, making a silent spectacle for an invisible, faceless crowd. No cheers, just cold, cruel data points. They see muscle and discipline, but they don’t see the cracks beneath the skin. I’m a product for their consumption, perfect and disposable. No one sees me. My mind is me, my eyes and what I see, it’s me, but I hide these eyes behind shades which tints the world into hues of yellow, blue, orange, green, to hide my eyes, and the nothingness behind them, the void I feel within me, and I tint this world I don’t either want or need to see, because this whole planet is a reflection of me, so I pass it at full speed, in motion blur, in false colors, so that I will never see it and it will never reveal me. Still I feed the machine, compulsively, constantly, and without this feeding the machine will eat me, and I will finally become the engine.
* Excerpts from a text by Kristian Skylstad
The exhibition is curated by Nora Stangebye and Luca Sørheim.
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