Images and words are closely intertwined in our ideas and stories about the world. They are our basic tools to grasp the world with, but at the same time work on different levels, one shows and one tells. Silent images can equally speak, even argue, while a text can conjure up a world of inner images. The exhibition examines how text and images charge and influence each other, but also how they undermine and cast doubt on each other.

The exhibition at Kunstnernes Hus, which is curated by Ida Kierulf and Helga-Marie Nordby, includes works by established international figures as well as new productions by a number of younger contemporary artists. The performance programme will take place in Grotten and at Kunstnernes Hus. A commissioned literary work with newly written ekphrases by both well-known and newly established authors is presented as a sound work in the exhibition, curated by author Eivind Hofstad Evjemo. Litteraturhuset has curated an academic programme throughout the exhibition period.

Bas Jan Ader, John Baldessari, Marcel Broodthaers, Matias Faldbakken, Ester Fleckner, Jan Freuchen, John Giorno, Susan Hiller, Olav Christopher Jenssen, William Kentridge, Solveig Lønseth, Mercedes Mühleisen, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and Peter Wächtler.

Kristin Berget, Rune Christiansen, Victoria Durnak, Victoria Kielland, Matias Faldbakken, Morten Langeland, Cecilie Løveid, Øyvind Rimbereid and Henrik Wergeland.

Nils Bech, John Giorno, Linn Cecilie Ulvin, Øyvind Rimbereid, Linn Cecilie Ulvin, Tori Wrånes and Ragnhild Aamås.

Gunnar Danbolt, Pia Maria Roll, Lotte Konow Lund, Ole Robert Sunde, Kaja S. Mollerin, Harald Henden, Johan Harstad, Karin Haugen, Håkon Bleken, Tom Egil Hverven, Rune Christiansen, Anne Carson, Robert Currie and Linn Ullmann.