Five artists, connected by proximity yet shaped by different linguistic realities, come together in the exhibition Trait d’union – Hyphen (in Norwegian, bindestrek). Here, they create a fluid interplay of sentiment, and their own grammatically precise yet distinct syntactic aesthetics. The participating European artists present works that embrace imperfection, forming a kind of worldly cartography of language. Moving fluidly between prefixes and suffixes, both they and we explore time—future and past—as something simultaneously hypothetical, mundane, and magical.

Romane Claus’ Bad Souvenirs series is inspired by the trinkets tourists bring home from exotic travels in search of a unique and humorous gift. Dubbed "bad" souvenirs because they are ethically irresponsible. Or in Alice Slyngstad’s Flare Demure that reflects on digital presence and bodily perception whereas Alice explains: my friend always calls me the lily of the valley when my upper body is bent over my phone while walking home at night. Making myself available through a multitude of digital channels, my face lights up, faded in and out by the steady pace of my fast walk. Further in Théo Ghiglia's works, they unfold like a game in which he gradually invents the rules. They appear as almost magical objects, totems crafted on the margins of a society whose decline remains muffled.

The exhibition is curated by Hedda Grevle Ottesen.