The Strait Trilogy (2020-2023) is a Nordic Noir by Asta Lynge and Matilda Tjäder that tells the story of a portal located somewhere in the strait between Denmark and Sweden. Following two independent investigators (played by the artists themselves) and with a cast of friends and family, the series weaves local myths with the evolving infrastructure and urban development of the Øresund region today.
‘In The Strait Trilogy there is no murder and if there is violence it happens at a more abstract level. The slow violence of urban development, ecological and political disaster that by the time it can be attributed it's already too late.’ - Nikhil Vettukattil, EVERYTHING IS A CIPHER OF WHICH YOU ARE THE THEME
Exhibitions and screenings include: ‘Drain the Oresund’, Panora/Malmö Konsthall, Malmö (2025), Die Verabredung, Cologne (2024), Lagune Ouest, Copenhagen (2023), FSK/Cittipunkt, Berlin (2023), Le Bourgeois, London (2022), Celin, Oslo (2021), Bizzarro, Copenhagen (2021), Copenhagen Architecture Festival (2021), and Delfi, Malmö (2020).
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Asta Lynge (DK, 1988) works associatively across materials and processes. She is interested in the notion of progress and its inherent affiliation with technology.
Lynge holds a BFA from Central Saints Martins (2012) and was part of the first iteration of the CSM Associate Studio Programme (2013-16). In 2022 she received the Anne Marie Carl Nielsen’s talent prize (2022) and her work is held in public collections incl. Fuglsang Kunstlandskab (Toreby, DK), The Danish Art Foundation, Musée d’Elysée (Lausanne, CH) and Copenhagen Municipality.
Matilda Tjäder is an artist and composer based in Malmö. Working interdisciplinary across sound, writing, performance, and moving image, Tjäder employs fiction as score and conceptual framework to critically examine social, infrastructural, and emotional landscapes.
She holds an MA from Goldsmiths, University of London and is the founder of the ambulatory live-series Scaling as well as resident on Retreat Radio.
Asta Lynge & Matilda Tjäder are part of Norbergfestival 2025's bleed: program.