Alt Går Bra Lokale · 20 - 23 November, 10:00am–6:00pm
Cube Insect is an installation that explores the tension between human advancement and environmental degradation through the interplay of air, mist, light, and sound. Using live wind data collected across Norway, the work transforms invisible atmospheric movements into visible forms. Within transparent plexiglass chambers, small foam cubes, animated by choreographed air currents, mist, and stroboscopic light mimic the restless flight of insects drawn to artificial illumination during India’s monsoon nights.
These cubes, rigid and synthetic, echo the industrial “building blocks” of progress, such as wind turbines, which in the Fosen peninsula have disrupted Sámi reindeer herding traditions and reshaped the landscape. As the light refracts through mist and motion, the cube dissolves into fragile, ephemeral forms questioning how modernity redefines nature and how human interventions alter the balance between vitality and exhaustion, visibility and disappearance.
Rajat Mondal is an intermedia artist from India, based in Oslo, Norway. His practice explores carbon both as a material and a subject through drawing, video,sound, and kinetic installations. He experiments with carbon allotropes like charcoal and graphite, using technological processes and mechanics with recycled electronics. He creates transformative and transient experiences as we encounter the sounds and sensations of nature that are fading by anthropogenic changes. He is engaged with science and art collaborations with scientists from OsloMet and Cologne University blending scientific knowledge with artistic inquiry to explore new ideas and perspectives.
He has received his Master’s degree in Medium and Material-Based Art from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (2024), a Diplôme National d’Art (DNA) from École Supérieure d’Arts & Médias, Caen (2022), an MFA from the University of Hyderabad (2019), and a BFA from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata (2017). His solo exhibitions include Echoes of Resilience II at Trykkeriet, Bergen (2025), KHiO Quarterly at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (2024), and Plumbago and Tremor at Galleri Seilduken, Oslo (2023). He has also participated in prominent group exhibitions such as Høstutstillingen Oslo (2024) , EKA gallery, Tallinn, Estonia (2024) and the ]interstice[ festival (France, 2024). He has received several grants and awards, including support from Norske Grafikeres Fond and Fond for lyd og bilde, as well as one-year working grants for younger / newly established artists from Kulturdirektoratet, Norway(2025-26)