The Future Stands Still but
We Move in Infinite Space
OSL contemporary, Oslo
18.01 – 23.02.19

Curated by Randi Grov Berger

Andrew Amorim, Ane Graff, Juan-Pedro Fabra Guemberena, Marjolijn Dijkman & Toril Johannessen, Kamilla Langeland and Jenine Marsh.

‘The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.’

― Neil deGrasse Tyson
This exhibition brings together a group of artists who all challenge our perception and create an awareness of how different elements are entangled in a network of relations. The complexity and relational nature in their works offer a change of perspective of the world and our place in it. Through sculpture, photography, collage, film and drawing; microscopic to intergalactic matter are studied through the camera lens, observed through the microscope, the telescope, or by techniques like inversion, touch and growth, pressings, or free association combining imagery and symbols from dreams and memories.

These artists perceive the world as a continuous and difficult dialogue with objects, memories, sensations, possibilities and prohibitions. There is a scale shift that occurs from the imperceivable to the personal, from the intangible to the physical and from the alien to the familiar, which vibrates between these works.

The title of this exhibition is borrowed from one of its artworks and originates from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet (1929).


walk the rail, 2019
Welded steel, concrete, gravel, soil, wildflower seeds, flower bulbs, train-pressed coins, rare earth magnet

turned-out pocket (1-9), 2019
Gypsum cement, powdered pigment, flower bulbs, train-pressed coins


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