One of Åsdam’s most major film/video works to date, Filter City focuses on two women their relation to each other, to a larger social group and to a city that is in transformation –architectonically, socially and politically. The film is mostly shot outdoors in modern apartment/housing complexes, using scenes that are interchangeable with different western cities. Through dialogue and filmic descriptions of places and bodies, Åsdam brings the characters into a narration of the city and a complex of desires for friendship, intimacy and meaning through language.

Knut Åsdam lives and works in New York. He has exhibited extensively in Europe and the Americas. He has shown large scale installations or solo shows at; the Nordic pavilion in the 1999 Venice Biennale; the 1999 Melbourne International Biennale; Kunsthalle Vienna; the Tate Britain, London; the Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; PS1… 2003 he had major presentations at the Istanbul Biennale and the Irish Museum of Modern Art among others.