Welcome to an artist talk with Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong on Saturday, November 8, 14–15 at Oslo Kunstforening. The talk will be held in English and moderated by jury member Pedro Gómez-Egaña.

In the exhibition, the duo – who have worked together since 2018 – explores the role of the individual in the age of late capitalism through three projects. A series of monumental paintings combines medieval iconography with Transformers, where Gothic architecture becomes a framework for personal training. The work can be seen as a critique of contemporary self-optimization and the pressures of technology on human labour. An animated film follows the fictional artist character Alexandra through an existential crisis, unfolding in landscapes composed of romantic paintings. The presentation is accompanied by a magazine inspired by so-called soap digests, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the (im)balance between art, work, and life.