Premiered at Galleri F15 October 22nd. Exhibition runs through January 22, 2023.

The video follows a conservator from the Museum of Cultural History (University of Oslo) as she travels to the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland, with four medieval objects. Found during archaeological excavations in Norway, these objects will be analysed in one of the world’s most advanced research facilities.
Classified as semiotic-material text culture, the objects in the depicted research constitute some of the earliest text sources found in Norway. In addition to inscriptions in runes, our earliest writing system, a lead amulet (C60965/037) was found to bear words and meaningful expressions in Latin and ancient Hebrew. In the film, the architectural surroundings of the research facility provide an almost cinematic backdrop to the human search for knowledge of the hidden. In this work, time is unravelled as non-linear through the medium of film as a means to understand man-made technology and architecture as metaphysical interfaces constructed in the quest for a knowledge that is arcane and inherent.

Research at PSI entails the use of a proton reactor capable of feeding computed tomography X-ray devices with a stream of cold neutrons. Computed tomography is commonly referred to as a CT scan. A CT scan is a diagnostic imaging procedure that uses a combination of X-rays and computer technology to produce images of the inside of the body or object. It shows detailed images of the internal material of the object.

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