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. — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by that rawness in very direct communication. My work is not meant to keep people happy or give them an escape. — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
The body should not just be something you see. It's also the inside of it. It's frightening and abstract and much more than pretty… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
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… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
I'm always going back and forth between wanting to do stuff that's abstract and stuff that's just telling everybody to listen. — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
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… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
Soft things are terrifying. They're the real signals of death. Images of strength can never be that terrifying. It's the images of weakness that… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of reading art catalogues from exhibitions, and plays, and I've worked with a surrealist German playwright, Heiner Müller. — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
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… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
I've always been so interested in the way the body feels when singing or being on stage, or being in the audience for that… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
Health is so important now, it's ridiculous - the body has become frightening, this thing that will kill you if you don't keep really… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
I went through various phases of different accents - I get ridiculously obsessed with different accents, different regional ways of using the voice, different… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
I couldn't even have a guitar. But I got a three-track recorder that was so small that I could take it with me. Then… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
I've studied film a lot, so I know much more about film than music, but I don't think I could have made films. — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
