Throughout the month of August 2024, the artistic collective Youth for Art and Brynja Raum collaborated opening their space and organising an exhibition that dealt with topics of mental health and well-being. Around 25 young artists with different backgrounds exhibited works that reflected their own experience with fear and/or how they dealt with them.
Who Can It Be Now?
Oil on Wooden Puzzle Pieces
60 × 50 cm
The mind is a puzzling entity that succours us in all the aspects of our life, solving problems, taking decisions and the understanding of the world and ourselves.
Connects with the body to instruct the most correct step, to be taken next.
But sometimes the mind can go against the body.
The mind can get damaged slowly and throughout a long period of time, or instantly, intensely. Forcing it to change its perception of reality, giving the body defected instructions and accepting a new irrational understanding of the world. This can develop fears and phobias of inoffensive elements and situations around us.
(…)
I tell friends and visits, to not ring my doorbell because it is broken. But that’s a lie.
The honest reason being the sound of it. The doorbell ring makes me shaky, nauseous (…) I know it’s irrational (…) My mind has taught my body for so long to be prepared for danger, that it never learned to unteach it.
The pieces of the puzzle are still unaligned, and once I think I put them together, they always have the potential to scatter again