IN COD-liver WE TRUST inc I, II, and Ill, 2022 altered ready-made rain lamps

IN COD-liver WE TRUST INC. is an installation commissioned for the North Atlantic TriennialDOWN NORTH for the Portland Museum of Art Feb. 2022, Reykjavik Art Museum Oct. 2022,and Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden May 2023. Ode to the Cod-liver oil and the social andpolitical impact it has had in the Northern hemisphere. The work consists of three intervenedvintage Rain Lamps, reindeer moss, rotating platforms, mineral oil and cod liver oil bottles,and pearls. The concept behind this joyous presentation is how fi shing and oil drilling areever-critical and controversial topics in the Northern Hemisphere with global warming and theArctic ice sheet ever decreasing.

The Vikings prized fi sh liver oil as “the gold of the ocean,” thanks to its healing properties.Cod liver oil remained a popular folk remedy in Northern Europe for centuries. And as early as1782, English physician