The objects have been abstracted into four reductive sculptural forms which are the starting points for a narrative. The exhibition's lighting has a guiding function and indicates the visitor's and the listener's movement in the room in that the soundtrack - a series of concise statements - all bring associations to political motifs in the present and in modern Norwegian history. The soundtrack as a whole comments on a content that can be summarized with terms such as adjustment, transformation and restructuring in a contemporary political context.

A few objects with a certain party political affiliation can be found in the exhibition. The breakthrough is a plaster cast of a sculpture by Ørnulf Bast, an artist who is otherwise known for the two bronze lions that guard the Kunstnernes Hus' entrance. It marks the entrance to the exhibition's architecture, while the bronze cast itself is located in the Labor Party's party office in Oslo. In the exhibition there is also a reference to the worker monument Pionéren by Per Palle Storm which stands on Youngstorget. The same sculpture in miniature format is presented by the National Organization (LO) to its members as an expression of long and faithful service. In the exhibition, however, the miniature is shown in an indirect form, represented through its casting form, similar to a shed shell which emphasizes the transformative nature that characterizes Alvær's exhibition. Mor, kjære mor can be seen as an attempt to describe current emotional experiences of a nation in political transition and how value hierarchies are exposed to continuous influence and change. To develop such reasoning, the exhibition is accompanied by a program of invited guests whose comments are documented and integrated as part of the exhibition.

Jesper Alvær (b. 1973) was educated in Prague, New York and Kitakyushu, Japan. In the period 2013-16, he is a research fellow at the University of the Arts in Oslo, department of the Academy of Arts, with the project Work, work which thematizes working and economic conditions around the production of art and artistic context on the contemporary art scene. In addition to a number of exhibitions internationally, Alvær has also stayed at a number of study, residence and research programs in Norway and abroad. Recent exhibitions include Arbeidstid, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, 2013, Activum, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, 2013, Eventos Paralelos, Manifesta 8, Murcia, 2010/11 and at Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow, 2007.