What's Inside What's Inside

  • (b. 1994, China) is an artist based in Oslo. In her work, Qi delves into nature’s mystique and the imaginative potential of digital world-building, bringing extraordinary creatures and complex mythologies to life. A graduate of the Oslo Academy of Fine Arts, she has recently exhibited at Studio 17 (Stavanger), Tegnerforbundet (Oslo), Bærum Kunsthall, Høstutstillingen 2022, Østlandsutstillingen 2023, Galleri Ask (Horten), Forum Box (Helsinki), and Atelier Nord (Oslo).

06th February -
26th March

What’s Inside What’s Inside is an exhibition with films and installations that takes as its point of departure the artist’s encounter with two elderly women, and examines how experiences of the unseen continue to live on through body, language, and landscape. Through everyday actions—working within smoke, oral storytelling, song, and memory—the project opens up a quiet reflection on myth, remembrance, and transformation.

The cave functions as a central mediating motif: a transitional space between life and death, visibility and invisibility, the present and what has passed. Rather than seeking to explain or retell myths, the project stays with conditions—smoke that alters the air, sound moving through dark spaces, and memories that continue to circulate through speech. In this way, the work asks whether myths have disappeared, or whether they have simply changed form.