Marin Håskjold’s work makes people talk. Håskjold asks the viewer to take an active positioning towards the characters impersonating roles within society. How do we structure our reasoning toward who we want to be? How do we create discriminatory categories creating uncomfortable positions for others? How do we structure communities and grouping? Gender and identity are fundamental to Håskjold’s research. The performativity of our identity is motivated by the structures surrounding us. Gender definition and normativity bring to light philosophical questions inscribed in societal structures dictating our everyday life and behavior regarding the perception of our bodies. Through filmic and photographic work, Håskjold often asks if gender is biologically or socially conditioned and brings it again to reperform these definitions endlessly for the self and others, to look into the machine producing given frameworks of desires, inclusion, and norms of acceptance.
