On Wednesday 17 September at 18, we invite you to an artist talk with Marius Engh. The conversation will be moderated by Elisabeth Byre, artistic director at Oslo Kunstforening. The conversation will be held in Norwegian. Welcome!

The exhibition The Sign of Four was developed following a research residency in Athens, where Marius Engh examined the relationship between sculpture and landscape, with particular focus on the origins of the pedestal and the portrait bust in the so-called herm sculpture. A herm is an abstract sculptural form rooted in ancient Greece, originally associated with the god Hermes – protector of travelers and commerce. In The Sign of Four, Engh draws lines between ancient ideas of borders and movement, symbolic language and systems of value, examining how these – from oracular prophecy to the notion of universal balance – continue to echo in, and challenge, our present day.