Subterranean Voices (2024)
together with Ewelina Węgiel
4K video, loop, 18′24″
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Commissioned by Norske Kunsthåndverkere for the exhibition Down in the Mines, Up in the Clouds at Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall in Arendal, Norway
Curated by Johanna Zanon, Kari Skippervold, and Åse Kamilla Spjelkavik Aslaksen

The video explores ways to establish relationships with the entities inhabiting the former iron mine. How the artists think about rocks, trees, time, and wind is inspired by speculative realism, new materialisms, object-oriented ontology, hauntology, and Scandinavian and Slavic fairy tales and stories. The animistic perspectives are fascinating, and the new relationships with the rocks are sensual and salutary. Non-human actors invite viewers to celebrate the world's end, as humans know it, and navigate ways of establishing relationships in the post-apocalyptic landscape of the Torbjørnsbu mine.