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    • Sharp As A Knife
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Title: Happy To Be One of The Masse (utsnitt)
Duration: 04'54 min. (seamless loop)

Happy To Be One of The Masse (year?) 
Video (color, sound), 4’54 min.
 
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The work directs criticism at the integration debate in Norway, where the question of identity was often reduced to a word; for eks. Norwegian or Kurdish. I felt sorry for the well-integrated immigrants who were swept up in the debate and tried as hard as they could to get into the warmth of Norwegianness and said: we have become Norwegian: we eat brunost (a type of Norwegian goat cheese that is brown and sweet ), Smalahove (which is a sheep's head made in the Norwegian way) Tran (fish oil) ... etc

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  • BIOGRAPHY
  • FILM & VIDEO
    • Sharp As A Knife
    • The Tattooed Sun
    • TO MY CHILDREN
    • SALT KISS (Part I)
    • SALT KISS (Part II)
    • SALT KISS (Part III)
    • Russian Rulette
    • NAZDAR
    • Norwegian Code
    • ZORBAS DANCE IN SNIPETORPSTREET 27
  • Mixed Media
    • Fragrant Deception
    • Halo of Shame Ph.d
    • A Trip With My Father In The Town
    • The Golden Wish
    • QARADAKI AS PRIME MINISTER
    • Diaries From A Distance
    • Heaven before a battle
    • Unknown Numbers
    • Be Patient
    • Property Painting - in collaboration with Fredrik Værslev
    • You talking to me? OK, I'm going to paint your thinks
    • Absolutt Veto in collaboration with Johannes Høie
    • Between Faces
    • You die so slowly you think you’re alive
    • Mixed Media
  • TEXT
    • The Tattooed Sun, by Oda Bhar 2020
    • EN AURA AV FORNEDRELSE, av Arve Rød 2021
    • Experience and effect, by Synnøve Merie Vik 2018
    • QARADAKI AS PRIME MINISTER, by Kate Pendry 2016
    • The Golden Wish, by Line Ulekleiv 2020
    • Abrupt movements on the map, by Tommy Olsson 2013
    • The World Through A Prism
    • KURDISTAN UNDER THE SIGN OF THE FUTURE, BY MARKO STAMENKOVIC
    • You talking to me? OK, I'm going to paint your thinks 2013
    • TRACE OF A FRIENDSHIP by Kate Pendry
    • A letter from Adnan Hassanpour
  • Book
    • The Christmas Star​
    • Distance, in collaboration with Mette Karlsvik
  • Commissions
    • The Story of Light And Darknes
    • Emergency hospital in Oslo
    • Between Faces
    • Vika Indiogo
    • Skien krisesenter
    • Grip Dagen
    • Internasjonalt Hus - Stavanger
  • Contact