A Chimera full of Love, Guilt and Frozen Vigor, Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo, 2026
Installation photographer: Henrik Follesø Egeland
Chimera portrait, 2026
Measure: 37,50 x 50 cm
Photographer: Geric Cruz
The exhibition’s starting point is the figure of the chimera – a fire-breathing hybrid creature from Greek mythology, composed of a lion, a serpent, and a goat within a single body. The figure operates as a metaphor for fragmented identity, the coexistence of contradictions, and the layered nature of personal history.
Across geographic and cultural contexts, the chimera becomes a recurrent motif for shifting political, cultural, and personal experiences and for what the artist herself describes as in-betweenness: a liminal condition that resists fixed positions and categorizations.
The exhibition spans over two decades of artistic production, from the early performance work Cock Fight Song (2006) to more recent works including the sculpture Meteorite (2019), the video work 7 Stages of Gynophobia (2023), and the performance Chimera Power and the Seven Women in Heaven (2026), alongside new sculptures and photographs. Self-staging is a recurring theme across different forms of materiality – whether as a rotating sculpture, a fragmented body, or a figure carved in acacia wood. Together, the works bear witness to a persistent inquiry into art-historical hegemonies, patriarchal structures, and personal experiences of language and diaspora, in which the humorous and the serious operate in concert.
