“A woman eats dirt from a flower pot on her window sill. She eats it for dinner and sometimes also for lunch. The sensation in her mouth is more comforting than she expects it. This surprises her every time, though perhaps it shouldn’t. She goes to work early in the morning. She catches a bus that takes her to the outskirts of the city, where the roads become muddy. She has a habit of looking up at the skyline throughout the journey. She imagines the tops of buildings being ancient flying machines that came there to rest. The faster the bus drives, the more this feels like it could be true. Speed and myth for breakfast.”

(extract from text “Where All Lines Meet” by Pedro Gomez Egaña)

Patricia Carolina is interested in domestic and urban environments where flows of water, grief and waste are intertwined. Her practice follows a close relation with materiality, moving image, text and textile.

Born and raised in Mexico, Patricia graduated from the Iceland University of the Arts (BA 2019), and Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo (MFA 2022). Her projects have been exhibited in Norway and abroad, among Kunstnernes Hus, Taiteen talo (Turku), The Living Art Museum, Y Gallery, Asmundarsalur, and the Nordic House in Reykjavik. Patricia lives and works in Oslo. www.patriciacarolina.com

Eli Mai Huang Nesse’ practice is a careful exploration of mixed feelings. Trying to understand contradictions, lingering in ambivalence and making room for ambiguity, her works have delved into identity crises, the notions of hybridity and situations that make you laugh and cry at the same time. Primarily, she works with textile, storytelling and immersive video installations. Eli holds a MFA from Oslo Art Academy (2022) and a BFA from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (2018). Her work has been shown at Kunstnernes Hus, ABF-huset (SE), K4, Galleri Blunk and Isotop Project Space.

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Pedro Gómez Egaña, Tori Dhunsi, Lucía Aragón, Faduma Mohamud, Hilde Tsui, Tommy Angeltvedt, Bekkelaget Renseanlegg, Annalise Wimmer, Ana Victoria Bruno, Chiara Camoni, Elisa Zaninoni, Paola Aringes, Sara Guldmyr, Jan Gravdal, Marit Gravdal, Jo Mikkel Sjaastad Huse, Ingrid Louise Birkeland Skorpen, Torleif Bay, Ingrid Haugen Nonskar, Stine Hauge Eikeset, Borgar Grande, Junie Lindblom, Kristin Linde Hauglund, Ole-Petter Arneberg, Ana Marques Engh, Anna-Victoria Simensen Borgersrud, Nicole Ward, Joel Billekvist, Julia Hovda