PURITY / RITUAL

Installed as part of the group-exhibition The Rhythm Between Us at KINGS Artist-Run, Melbourne, Australia, 13-16 November 2025.

The project centres around a performance-based video in which a masked character walks up Ulriken (the highest mountain surrounding Bergen in Norway, 643 meters above sea level), completely dressed, and covered, in white. Along the way, marshmallows and milk are compulsively consumed, as if the character is attempting to internalise, and become, the white surface in which it is covered. While the exact goal of their behaviour is unclear, excessive consumption as a vehicle for transformation seems to be at the root of the matter; pointing towards the irrationality and self-importance of rituals.

Digital video: 8:35 minutes.
Photograph: archival inkjet print, 30x42cm.
Sculpture: readymade clothes stand, paper, marshmallows, marshmallow-based paint, tape, glue, metal, pearls, 140x40x40cm. The sculpted parts of the sculpture, incuding the face, is made out of marshmallow.