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Cultured Magazine: The show's title refers to Ghost In the Shell, the 1995 cyberpunk anime film, and the conceptual project it inspired, “No Ghost Just a Shell,” by Philippe Parrena and Pierre Huyghe.

Torbjørn Rødland: The title is typically introduced late in the process. It helps me in the finishing stages of deciding what to include in a show.

Torbjørn Rødland.

CM: How do you know which ones you'll print?

Torbjørn Rødland: I usually know as soon as I get my film back which images will work for a book or an exhibition.

CM: But there is something here about shells and guts. The apple, for instance.

Torbjørn Rødland: The insides are moving out and the outside is moving in.

Torbjørn Rødland, Apple with Worms, 2021.

CM: One image that struck me was the couple in The Awoken Conscience, (2019). How do you meet couples?

Torbjørn Rødland: One of my recurring motifs is a couple with a negotiable or unsettled power balance. For a long time, I would construct these unequal couples, but this photograph resulted from an open call for existing couples.

CM: How do you feel about Instagram?

Torbjørn Rødland: If my images cannot stand out among everybody else’s, I’m doing something wrong.

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