Weather and Politics

Victoria Duffee

This illustrated essay, rooted in memories of the Your Pleasure, Our Pain residency, reframes Duffee’s understanding of “luxury” and the systems that sustain it. Rather than offering resolution, it opens space for contradiction, curiosity, and not knowing. Part artwork, part dispatch, part diary, part scream of frustration, Duffee offers an honest and deeply subjective navigation of complicity, ambivalence and possibility.

Victoria Duffee lives and works in Oslo. Her studio practice incorporates textiles, jewelry, and objects that straddle and challenge conventional boundaries between art and craft to explore collective relationships to identity, gender, and memory. Through processes of weaving, painting, and casting materials, she seeks to establish a profound connection between the feminine domains of attire and the home, as these are the aesthetic objects entwined in our everyday lives and collective memory.

She was educated at the School of Visual Arts (2007-2010) in New York and the University of the Arts in Oslo (2016-2018). In recent years, she has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Oslo, New York, and Los Angeles, and has had solo exhibitions at Salgshallen Gallery and Buer Gallery in Oslo. She has exhibited at institutional venues such as the Chart Art Fair with Kunsthall Oslo and the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, contributing a work to Anna Daniel's "A Gift From A Woman."