Graphic distance
2025
A work with three rotating wood block sculptures. Used in the performance printing they print in red, green and blue – tracing a rope, a scale and repeatedly ten grass straws.
A rope, a plank, a line, a scale.
They overlap and bleed.
The motives come out of research and formulations about human abstractions like law, maps and tiles, all becoming tools for human domination of the landsacpe. The work also addresses ownership and how physical or intellectual properties is involved in the formation of an individual. Law, as well as interpretation and moral, is dependent on social negotiation and agreements. A line drawn alter the landscape, conserning rights and usage, but not necessary the landscape it self. A boarder is abstract, invisible for birds.
The performance took place at KKV in Farsta, Stockholm, with the rotating sculptures made during a residency at Grafikens Hus. The papers was prepared with screen printed images of two ropes and some planks, also produced by the artist at KKV’s graphic workshop. Printing as performance rolled over a paper area of 5 x 11 meters, accompanied by the artist’s voice through a waist-mounted speaker.
An additional performance brought one 25 meters long printed paper into a nearby wild park, and the doing was informed by comments over the waist-mounted speaker. The voice as one layer of knowledge and naming, along the up-right paper catching shadows made by the sun and the pines.
Both performances was part of SITE specific performance festival.
The process is on display in an exhibition over the summer at Farsta, Mårbackagatan 7c. Finissage Sunday September 7 with a conversation with Nina Beckmann from Grafikens Hus.
Showing prints, other traces and the rotating woodcut sculptures.
