Muzeion
Signed “W.Germany”, “Import” or “#13″ this pottery is mass-produced. Occasionally Danish hand-crafted or Swedish amateur works. In rare cases pieces by known artists. This is a homage to Cezanne, Morandi and Robert Mapplethorpe. As well as generations of art students struggling with shadows, shapes and forms of a “Nature Morte” consisting of randomly collected items, put together by a teacher in messy hair and corduroy, or other paraphernalia suggesting he is true believer of ART.
Ruins
Tempus edax rerum, tuque, invidiosa vetustas, omnia destruitis vitiataque dentibus aevi paulatim lenta consumitis omnia morte!
(Oividius Metamorphoses XV, 234.)
Shame
Printed negatives from a public archive at the Local Transport Company in Stockholm (SL). Exhibited at Roger Björkholmen Gallery, Stockholm.
New Clouds
Climate change is here to stay.
Time Space
Man rotating clockwise. Twelve hours, twelve images. A perfect match to the frames of a 120 roll film in a generic midsize camera.
Subways
“The Metro was one of the most significant architectural manifestations during the twentieth century. The aesthetic and social pathos of modernism expressed in a transport machinery. Transit and travel charged with not only a practical meaning; a metaphysical hope of a better life.
At the same time as the ideology of an epoch is unduly obtrusive in the pale fluorescent light of Metro underworld, I sense an end of an illusion and it´s social model”.
Johan Fowelin, April 28 1994.
Defining Moment
Berlin November 1989. Exhibited at Moderna Muséet 1991.