Thank you to everyone who joined us for Friday’s Artist Talk and the prepremiere screening of Tore Hallas' strong and beautiful new work: YOU ARE CLOSER TO GOD WHEN YOU DO NOT INDULGE Using the camera as his tool, Hallas explores how desire, worship, and power operate. Working within themes of fatness and queerness, and fatness as queerness; religious ontologies and intention; as well as photographic and cinematographic reflection as both theme and method. Personal narratives, and the intersectionalities of violences and positionalities are undercurrents in his works, along with travelling as both physical displacement and symbolic quest, and the interaction between the world and the othered body and mind. YOU ARE CLOSER TO GOD WHEN YOU DO NOT INDULGE is a poetic and political work of explicit intimate images and scientific research that reveals discourses judging which bodies are deemed worthy of sexualization and the financial consequences that follows. Thank you @torehallas for trusting in me and thank you to the Museum of Contemporary Art @museet_for_samtidskunst and GRASP @graspfest for collaborating with us. Also, thanks to the A-team of @mariesvin @lineglavind, @rsdnlsn, @kelisagot and @chrsj74. Tore’s work was generously funded by @statenskunstfond and @art_hub_copenhagen