MFA Fine Art Graduation Exhibition: Biting My Tongue
Channel: HDK-Valand
Date: 2023-06-09

In the graduation show Biting My Tongue ten artists unites under the philosophy that what is not said is just as important as what is said. The title  alludes to an interaction between what is spoken, and certain types of silence; or to the act of simultaneously saying something but instantly regretting it. 

The students featured in Biting My Tongue work in various media – everything from painting and sculpture to performance, installations and video works. Materiality and mysticism coexist with investigations into norm criticism, psychosocial health, sexualization and physicality. The individual psyche and the ideals of our society are brought into dialogue, through art that has its own agency and voice. Many of the students use ironic strategies to examine the building blocks of language itself, and the interpretation of words. The contemporary moment revealed in the exhibition seems characterised by loneliness, mental illness, violence, and an overwhelming feeling of being stuck within systems and structures. 

Participating students:
Anna Kristina Bergman, Ricardo Diaque, Yana Deliyska, Saga Eklund, Thais Fernandes, Maria Hardin, Jonathan Lystbæk, Andrea Giovanni Oded, Pablo Encinas Alonso and Monique van der Wal.