Céline Mathieu: Lån

How do the intertwined chains of material supply and human intimacy shape our everyday experiences? Céline Mathieu's first Scandinavian institutional exhibition stems from her research project, "Conditions for Raw Materials", an ongoing investigation into the circulation of thoughts and materials in exhibitions. In Lån ("loan"), Mathieu navigates the conflation of material flows, value creation, artistic labor, and emotional attachment, employing a "soft" institutional critique laced with personal narrative. Organized around bespoke comfort objects, reclaimed materials, and a piece of primary Norwegian aluminum, the exhibition evokes a richly relational network as vulnerable to collapse as any system, yet representing human sustenance in its most elemental forms.