Utstilling

Avgang 2025: May-Oisín Qviller / Halfsleeper

A modern place, a city and a time of multitudes, but you lack the language to be understood. What used to make sense is now gone. You fill your head and heart with music and colors; they slowly spread and take over everything else. What is horrible and what is beautiful is now sounding the same.

But you still remember someone you love, somewhere in this endless city.

How can alienation and trauma physically change how we see colors, how we hear sounds and music, how we observe other people and the places we go to? Can they make us dangerously isolated in our own minds, in how we perceive and understand the world? And can they make things appear more beautiful as well?

In Halfsleeper, May-Oisín Qviller explores this across the two gallery rooms Skylight and Seilduken 2 at Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
With a focus on alienation and trauma in a city landscape, the exhibition manifests intense emotions and states of mind in sound, moving images, physical objects, text and light.

May-Oisín Qviller (b. 1995) is a Norwegian artist, mainly working with film, sound and text. Halfsleeper is a solo exhibition as part of his master's degree in Fine Arts from Oslo National Academy of the Arts.

Opening 7th of February 18:00-21:00. Also open 8-9th of February and 12-14th of February 17:00-20:00

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MFA graduation projects

The final year Master students will present individual graduation projects in different spaces at KHiO and around Oslo. These projects will be diverse in form and will take place at different times during the spring semester. Some of the projects will open simultaneously. The graduating students will also collectively explore the group format in a curated group exhibition.