“Pre-text” is a work created for “Momentum 10: The Emotional Exhibition”, which took place in the city of Moss (NO). “Pre-text” consisted of a multiple parts project that existed in the form of exhibition inside Momentum Kunsthall, in the form of in situ installation and participatory sound piece in the public space of Moss. “Pre-text” is a continuation of a project started in 2012 in which I find texts in books and paint over the pages to capture words and phrases I want to (but never can) remember forever. The original context of the words is made available to new interpretations, turning other’s narrations into our own. “Pre-text” considers the troubled relationship of translating experiences into words, and in particular, how this relationship between experiences and words reveals the tension between private emotions and the political.