Other Art explores human behaviour at The Cell

How we feel is shaped by how we live – by our relationships, social norms and the digital environments we inhabit. Research shows that social media, idealised body images and high demands can affect self-esteem, feelings of stress and mental wellness – particularly among the young.

In the exhibition series “Me You We”, art and science join forces to explore topical issues in the public debate relating to human behaviour.

The first part of the exhibition

The contributors to the first part of the exhibition, “Me”, which runs between May and December this year, are:

• Lene Marie Fossen (NO), the photographer who documented her life with severe anorexia through self-portraits of graphic delicacy, control and presence. “Me” exhibits a selection of her works from 2017 – highly charged portraits of a body that bears the imprints of both suffering and creativity. Her life and art are also reflected in the documentary film “Selfportrett”.
• Francesco Albano (IT), artist and professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti. His work is characterised by an unsettling penchant for deformation – as an expression of the physical and mental degradation of the human body. In his “Twelve Years Ago New Year’s Feast”, he portrays an emotional breakdown, a collapse of intangible weight so overwhelming that the body becomes deformed and compressed, visual testimony to the tragic and ironic condition of what it is to be human.
• Teresa Wennberg (SE/FR), digital art pioneer, has been working since the 1970s with video, 2D and 3D  animation and VR in her drive to unpack the nature of human cognition. On display in “Me” is her work “Nuit Blanche”, an early and visionary video installation about encounters, nervousness and hook-ups, now in a digitally restored version.