A shelter doubling as a trap, the cobweb is a structure almost invisible until activated or broken. It is an architecture built from the inside out, a home spun from the body that inhabits it, strung between whatever fixed points the world happens to offer. It holds things together: dew, light, the vibration of something approaching before it arrives; care and danger, connectivity and fragility spun from a single, continuous thread.

Since August 2024, the Neurodivergent/Funkis Cultural Workers Forum has met monthly at UKS, growing into a space for collective care and mutual support. Taking the cobweb as a metaphor, Handling Cobwebs has grown out of the Forum and presents work by ten artists, bringing together a diverse range of artistic practices and media, including photography, installation, textile sculpture, painting, and ceramics. Together, these works explore how we experience and navigate a world that can be alluring, cryptic and overwhelming, full of rules and regulations, hidden codes and nuances of communication that often seem obvious to everyone else.

Handling Cobwebs is supported by Oslo kommune and is organised in connection with the Neurodivergent/Funkis Cultural Workers Forum, hosted by UKS. The Forum meets monthly, on the last Tuesday of every month. We explore strategies to manage health conditions, access issues at work, and how to be a professional artist while managing enduring chronic health conditions, disabilities, or neurodivergence. Read more about the Forum here.