Quotes by Jenny Hval

Jenny Hval

Everybody needs to read a lot of revolutionary stuff, because the revolution is a big part of our will to live.

Needs

Revolution

Stuff

Gym is a center of capitalist breakdown, and everything is focused on the individual.

Breakdown

Capitalist

Individual

I got really interested in the language used in blogs written by young girls – a young person’s aggression, which is always lacking from the visual world.

Girl

Language

World

I really hated being the Norwegian girl in every single conversation in Australia, so I tried to make my Norwegian-ness invisible, speaking like whoever was around me.

Australia

Girl

Invisible

I remember being very, very aware of gender when I was really young. Not necessarily in a bad way. Maybe it’s a little bit because I’m Norwegian and how I’ve been brought up.

Littles

Remember

Way

I went through various phases of different accents – I get ridiculously obsessed with different accents, different regional ways of using the voice, different types of singing. It’s all tied together. Speaking is a kind of singing, as are crying and laughing.

Laughing

Singing

Voice

I’m always going back and forth between wanting to do stuff that’s abstract and stuff that’s just telling everybody to listen.

Abstract

Back And Forth

Stuff

I’m constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal when it’s actually incredibly discriminating.

Reading

Trying

World

I’m not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don’t really understand myself. It’s more interesting when I can do that.

Ideas

Interesting

Trying

I’m very interested in the visual world because I’m also very interested in feminism. I find that the world of watching takes us into the most psychotic state of, like, “You are this one person, but you have to become another person to see these images.”

Feminism

Like You

World

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Abstract

Apocalypse

Art

Artist

Australia

Back And Forth

Believe

Breakdown

Capitalist

Country

Feminism

Fighting

Film

Focus

Genre

Girl

Hair

Ideas

Individual

Interesting

Invisible

Language

Laughing

Like You

Littles

Long

Made

Mean

Needs

Norway

People

Play

Practice

Reading

Real

Religious

Remember

Revolution

Singing

Sound

Stuff

Taken

Thinking

Trying

Voice

Vulnerability

Way

Weakness

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Quotes by Jenny Hval

Jenny Hval

Everybody needs to read a lot of revolutionary stuff, because the revolution is a big part of our will to live.

Gym is a center of capitalist breakdown, and everything is focused on the individual.

I got really interested in the language used in blogs written by young girls – a young person’s aggression, which is always lacking from the visual world.

I really hated being the Norwegian girl in every single conversation in Australia, so I tried to make my Norwegian-ness invisible, speaking like whoever was around me.

I remember being very, very aware of gender when I was really young. Not necessarily in a bad way. Maybe it’s a little bit because I’m Norwegian and how I’ve been brought up.

I went through various phases of different accents – I get ridiculously obsessed with different accents, different regional ways of using the voice, different types of singing. It’s all tied together. Speaking is a kind of singing, as are crying and laughing.

I’m always going back and forth between wanting to do stuff that’s abstract and stuff that’s just telling everybody to listen.

I’m constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal when it’s actually incredibly discriminating.

I’m not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don’t really understand myself. It’s more interesting when I can do that.

I’m very interested in the visual world because I’m also very interested in feminism. I find that the world of watching takes us into the most psychotic state of, like, “You are this one person, but you have to become another person to see these images.”

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