Curatorial Note
In the poem October, Louise Glück says, “there is not enough beauty in the world”. In this dark season it is easy to agree. As it gets darker and colder, many places in the city of Stockholm don’t feel the same as they did before. There are also bigger, more permanent changes happening...
To walk into a silent tunnel
The city is a patchwork.
Or perhaps a kaleidoscope, an optical illusion. You focus your gaze on one part of it, and slowly the motif transforms into something different...
Byggstenar
Layers of history exist in this tunnel. Built during Sweden's Norrmalmsregleringen which was the most extensive urban redevelopment in Swedish history, occurring between 1950-1970...
tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus
tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus is from Virgil’s Latin epic poem Aeneid.
English translation: a wound silently lives deep within the breast...
OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (ILL)
STRIVING NOT TO PLEASE
BUT TO OUTSMART THE GODS
WE HAVE BEEN ACTING OUT
THE OLDEST PLAY OF HUBRIS
KNOWN TO MODERN MAN...
Can you see it?
Can you see it? A kind of threshold where the past and present co-exist. Like clarity and obscurity...