group exhibition, oslo city
curated by hedda grevle ottesen, produced by ida charlotte nilsen
14.01-22.01.2023

ARTISTS
Erla Audunsdottir, Ingeborg tysse, jara Marken, Julia Boracco, madelen isa lindgren

Elegy to Circe as an island, 2022
Digital video recording from Ponza, Italy (fictionalized Aeaea)
Sound Scape and voice record by Ingeborg tysse
Duration: 11.49 min

How to become an island on pharmakeia
Digital video recording from Ponza, Italy (fictionalized Aeaea)
Duration: 03.50

In the exhibition “Aeaea” the group explores the character Circe as a goddess, woman, sorceress, mythic archetype and as an island. Best known from Homer’s Odyssey when Odysseus and his men visits Aeaea, Island of Circe, she is known for transforming his men into swine.

“Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.”

Men with the heads of eagles no longer interest me or pig-men, or those who can fly with the aid of wax and feathers or those who take off their clothes 
to reveal other clothes
 or those with skins of blue leather or those golden and flat as a coat of arms or those with claws, the stuffed ones
 with glass eyes; or those hierarchic as greaves and steam-engines.
All these I could create, manufacture,
or find easily: they swoop and thunder around this island, common as flies,
 sparks flashing, bumping into each other, on hot days you can watch them
as they melt, come apart, fall into the ocean like sick gulls, dethronements, plane crashes.
I search instead for the others, the ones left over,
the ones who have escaped from these mythologies with barely their lives;
they have real faces and hands, they think of themselves as wrong somehow, they would rather be trees.
-Circe/Mud Poems by Margaret Atwood