In the bachelor exhibition Crying in the Chapel I share the space Havet at Konstfack together with Constance Michnik and Theodor Hallgren.
In Crying in the Chapel search for truth in the gap between reality and depicted reality. With endless association as my method, an interest in scientific language and the intrinsic forces of objects, I try to understand the world through the fragments that have survived the passing of time. This body of work is influenced by my time in the United States in the spring of 2024.
Special thanks to
Nina Svensson, Thomas Karlsson, Johan Wahlgren, Constance Michnik, Theodor Hallgren, Hannes Tomani, Andor Gonzalez Margalef, Sara Atwood, Anna-Karin Rasmusson, Meriç Algün, Zakarias Knigge, Sandra Fredin, Heaven Hailay Feday, Lina Selander, Florence Wild, Patrik Lindgren, Suzanna Queckbörner, Sebastian Höglund, David Larsson, Eva Svensson, Jörgen Svensson, Maria Tomani,
Per Tomani and Calexico wood
Midnight swim in Lethe
Video loop, 7:22, overhead projector, text
sound by Andor Gonzalez Margalef
Lethe is the goddess of Oblivion but also one of the five rivers in the underworld of Hades. The shades of the dead need to drink the water from the river to forget the earthly life and to be reborn. The video is presented together with a text born out of scientific phenomenon, philosophical doctrines, myths and observations that is projected on the opposite wall by an overhead projector.
Retrograde
Video loop 02:54
In the winter of 1997-98, a series of storms unearthed remains of a sitka spruce forest at northern Oregon coast. The trees are estimated to be around 2000 years old and are by scientists believed to have been bit by an earthquake or tsunami that both buried and preserved them. Today, the trees rise during low tide, still with their roots in their original soil.
In her essay ‘The earth-veil’: Ruskin and Environment, Sara Atwood writes: “Ruskin assures us that even minerals are not inert, but in their combination with oxygen—the ‘breath of life’—they are instead ‘metals with breath put into them’, possessing ‘a kind of soul’. They are intimately connected to human life. ‘Things are not either wholly alive, or wholly dead’, he declares in The Ethics of the Dust. ‘They are less or more alive’.“
The evidence is contaminated
Curved wood lathes, wax, screw eye hooks, plaster, flower fakir, shells, rodent net, casted glass, ball chain, American dictionary, raw sugar, found mirror, bird bone, desert sand, test tube, silicon, lab glass, thistle seeds, 150 apple seeds, 150 metal pins, wax, snakeskin, plastic pockets, thread, fossil vitra, ashes from iris, glass, cast sugar, glass bead
Backbone 1,2,3
soy wax
Index
18 collages on 18 paper spreads
33
semi transparent and transparent soap mass
Cambridge Dictionary 1967
Scanned spread, marker