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The video Gut Feeling investigates the body as a container full of biology, memories and stories. It explores how genetics, history and ghosts affect our consciousness, questions who we are or what we are made of, and describes a kind of life without any beginning or end. The video looks at the ambiguity of the body – to see it as both a possessor and possessed, which may make us reimagine what we interpret as living or dead, human or non human, and familiar or strange in the subject. Gut Feeling is full of unarticulated, undefined and unclear shapes – abstract forms waiting to be shaped by language and words.

Eli Maria Lundgaard (b. 1989, Norway) is a visual artist based in Oslo, Norway. She holds a master in fine art from Malmö Art Academy (2018). Her work has been presented at The Moscow International Biennale for Young Artists (2016 and 2018), the onboard program at The Antarctic Biennale (2017), as well as at several exhibitions and screenings in Scandinavia and other parts of Europe. In 2019 she was nominated for Future Generation Art Prize, and have through this exhibited at Pinchuk Art Centre in Kiev and at the collateral event of the 58th Venice Biennale. In 2022, she participated in the opening exhibition at the National Museum in Norway, amongst others. Solo exhibitions includes UKS in Oslo 2020, Delfi in Malmö 2020, Marabouparken Konsthall in Sundbyberg in 2021, and at NNKS in Svolvær 2022.