Karsten Krogh-Hansen (Oslo, N, 1997) was selected by the jury for a series of paintings exploring the evolving consumption of imagery in a contemporary culture shaped by technology, popular culture and nostalgia. Krogh-Hansen actively archives digital imagery, collecting fragments from the vast and shifting stream of visual culture. Through repetition, serial gestures and subtle variations, he investigates how recurring forms can reveal underlying patterns that mirror human imperfection. Navigating between landscapes, figures, and repetitive forms, he distances himself from his subjects to transform generic scenes into intimate and personal ones. He creates his own distemper paint, using unconventional materials such as animal skin glue, inks, bister, dry pigments and crushed stone. The result is a practice that is both melancholic and subtly humorous, structured yet spontaneous, merging materiality and image in a constant state of tension.