…she stayed anxiously beside the door and started to weep…

On November 3rd, 1879, after failed attempts on rabbits, Gerhard Armauer Hansen, poised along a knife’s edge, relocated leprosy bactillum to the eye of a protesting female. The contamination caused an ocular leprosy node to develop. With respect and sorrow, on the same site of Bergen’s Lepramuseet, I introduce a foreign body to my eyes—artificial tears. The intrusion bites the membranes and stirs authentic drops, the hand reaches out…

“Xenograftie (Artificial Sorrow)” investigates the borders of ethics and the animot—the cultural alignment between the animal and the female. The audience witness an act of memorialisation: the fur of a slaughtered rabbit and my own severed hair gradually cling to the body of the other, translating the languages into which they are written.