Jone Kvie maps a "pre-rational" world at OSL Contemporary

The exhibition time machines by Norwegian artist Jone Kvie at OSL contemporary continues the artist’s long-standing exploration of a forgotten vision of the world and the forces that govern it. In this pre-rational cosmology, the living realm is animated by elemental forces—fire, air, water, and earth—moved by Love and Strife rather than abstract laws. Knowledge arises not through mastery or measurement, but through attunement to circulating forces and their instabilities. Moving between this ancient understanding of the laws of nature and modern sculpture—through a search for sensuality within mineral matter and the staging of gravity as a sculptural principle—Kvie’s practice runs counter to the technical processes that have reduced the primordial energies of things and beings to mere mathematical curves. Added to this fracture between the ancient