Fleeting Fragments


In the sculpture series, we meet the ruins of a collective memory;
deriving from the image collection which rapidly built up while the Notre Dame
cathedral was burning down. Is it as a consolation, a process of grief, a will
to honour, to spread, or to preserve that the collection grows? Thousands of
meetings and fleeting moments testify to a timeline with an abrupt end. Holiday
memories are mixed with rushing fires and billowing smoke. Afterwards, when
parts of the cathedral remain only as pictures, what do we remember? What is
preserved in our collection?
The works in the exhibition are created from the 38,000 images shared on Instagram during the evening that Notre Dame was on fire, April 15, 2019. Through photogrammetry, the images have been brought together into three-dimensional fragments. The physical shapes become snapshots of an otherwise constantly flowing medium and its frozen state gives us time for reflection. The sculptures question hierarchies where traditional (often professional) perceptions of what is considered important and historically interesting can be challenged by a joint action of collecting.
Material: PLA, latex & metal
Year: 2021-2022
Displays: Spark Gallery (2021) & SEART (2022)
With support from Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse.
The works in the exhibition are created from the 38,000 images shared on Instagram during the evening that Notre Dame was on fire, April 15, 2019. Through photogrammetry, the images have been brought together into three-dimensional fragments. The physical shapes become snapshots of an otherwise constantly flowing medium and its frozen state gives us time for reflection. The sculptures question hierarchies where traditional (often professional) perceptions of what is considered important and historically interesting can be challenged by a joint action of collecting.
Material: PLA, latex & metal
Year: 2021-2022
Displays: Spark Gallery (2021) & SEART (2022)
With support from Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse.





Selected press
www.sydsvenskan.se/2021-11-06/har-ar-konsten-du-inte-ska-missavo0eM
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