Sex Ecologies

“Somewhere in the distance something hurts.”

This refrain runs through Jenny Hval’s poem “Amphibious, Androgynous,” one of the many texts that make up the expansive catalogue , which accompanies the titular exhibition at Kunsthall Trondheim in Norway. . This grammar is a distancing of its own through language; it is barely in the third person, as there is no here, no subject, barely a discernible object—instead a distillation of pure feeling. Paradoxically, this remoteness (grammatical, stated) alludes to an unlikely connectivity. In Hval’s terms, distance is not a barrier to shared experience but rather an improbable site of identification. Here feeling dismantles the twin presumptions of skin as.