text by Sanne Karssenberg & Marina Sasseron:

Oline Bronée’s thesis In Gushes of Hormones we Spiral departs from a study of hormonal changes in the early stage of pregnancy. The combination of autofiction and theoretical research generates a poetic and contextual framework for a journey through and with the body in relation to their surroundings. Oline invites the reader on this physical, scientific and emotional transformative trip by posing questions about gender, the boundaries between the individual and collective body and the societal norms that guide the regulation of hormones.

Simultaneously, this thesis explores a new definition of fashion. A definition that includes the magic of movement as a condition for a world in togetherness. Movement is constant and collective, and so is fashion. It takes place in between people, objects, emotions and surfaces. Oline references Sara Ahmed’s writing on the stickiness of emotions to underpin the influential but also often underestimated position of hormones as instigators of movement and change.