Underlying Gundersen and Storsveen's project is an interest in scientific systems and the attempt to create order in chaos. How do we collect knowledge and how do we use it? The project highlights the transience of scientific descriptions and how knowledge is produced and discarded. In Gundersen's subtle and surreal processing of found objects, a zip on a stone or a turn key on a snail shell, he prys out the inherent possibilities of things. Storsveen's monumental black-and-white photographs are given a new meaning as they are detached from their original source. Anatomical study objects mainly taken from medical literature are transformed into objects of desire through the artist's grasp, and the references to a modernist photo history are clear.

The exhibition explores different scales and chronologies – from the infinite to the microscopic, from the history of the universe to the artist's universe in the studio. We see this, for example, in Storsveen's architectural chalk drawings of spaces, lines, volumes and shapes recorded in her studio. The exhibition's large joint work occupies an entire skylight hall and has the shape of a reading room. Here, Gundersen and Storsveen's project appears as exercises in how images and objects can create new connections and dissolve given meanings through artistic processing. The exhibition at Kunstnernes Hus becomes an opportunity to think together: in their own words to answer questions that have not been asked.

Jon Gundersen (born 1942) lives and works in Oslo and is educated at the Statens Håndverks- og Kunstindustriskole, Oslo (1963-67). He has had a number of solo exhibitions, including at the Bomuldfabriken Kunsthall, Kunstnerforbundet and the Stenersen Museum. He has been purchased by institutions such as the National Museum, the Norwegian Culture Council and Oslo Municipality's art collections. Gundersen has also carried out a number of large decoration projects, including at the Central Hospital in Trondheim, Hamar City Hall, the University of Oslo, Rikshospitalet, Ullevål Hospital and most recently in Nordmarka in Oslo.

Elise Storsveen (born 1969) lives and works in Oslo and works mainly with collage and painting. She is educated at the Norwegian School of Handicrafts and Art Industry (1988-92) and at the Norwegian Academy of Fine Arts (1992-96). She has had a number of exhibitions, including at Kunstnerforbundet, Galleri Soft and 0047. Storsveen has taught at the art academy for a number of years and also works with the fanzine Album with Eline Mugaas, which has recently been presented at MOMA in New York, Kunsthalle Zürich and New York Art Book Fair. She is also behind a number of public decoration commissions, including at Ila Landsfengsel, St. Olav's Hospital in Trondheim and Litteraturhuset in Oslo.