In 'Walking Ego (Body 5)', we see Bernstrup's digital alter ego, dressed in a robotic costume, with exposed breasts, walking endlessly towards the viewer. The animation is made by modifying the famous video game Half-Life2 and using its tools for character animation in order to create an avatar textured with the artist's face and performance outfit. Bernstrup's musical performances and animations have since many years addressed issues on gender, sexuality, reality, fiction, the production of desire and the sexual fetishisation of dreams through drag and melancholic synth-disco. 'Walking Ego (Body 5)' extends the artist's previous work as the body that appears has further transformed away from clear gender categories and become more queer. Bernstrup's art/drag performances have also reached a more abstracted, symbolic stage, and drifted away from addressing trans-gender and 'real' life to more fictive, hybrid references.

Catalogue text by Jesper Nordahl from the exhibition New Gravity at NCCA, Moscow