Tactile

Tactile is a nine-panel oil installation exploring the language of the human hand — its gestures, its contradictions, and what it communicates when words are unavailable or insufficient.

Each panel is 30 × 30 cm, oil on canvas. Together they form a 3 × 3 grid — a format that insists on being read both as individual works and as a unified whole. The arrangement is not arbitrary: the eight surrounding panels create a field of public gestures, mundane and loaded, that press in on the centre. The centre — painted on deep-edge canvas — holds something else.

Tactile received the Public Choice Award at the annual exhibition "Vår Egen Høstutstilling (2026)" by the Steinkjer Art Association.