Short-Stories exhibition

26 February – 26 March 2005 at Färgfabriken in Stockholm. A group exhibition with Maria Boij, Sara Isaksson From, Elizabeth Haven, Lisa Olausson, Lizzie Ridout, Hanna Werning, Joakim Ericson and Emma Åkerman curated by Johanna Lewengard och Martin Frostner.

Apparat No. 1 ”Suddenly my wall was a mess – and I like it.” at Short Storeis, Färgfabriken
by Hanna Werning and Joakim Ericson
Wallpaper drawing machine creating patterns at random repeat. Black permanent marker on white coated wallpaper.

Text from the exhibition catalogue:
It’s too hard to write, I’d rather paint
It’s too hard to paint, I’d rather draw
It’s too hard to draw, I’d rather wait
Wait… we were thinking of giving the pen to someone else. If only we could invent a machine that would do the work for us. It would all be so much easier. But then we could not master the outcome. Could we leave it to happen by chance? What if the result would look like as it was made randomly? The same non-figurative patterns pencilled over and over again. Is there such a thing called “random repeat”? A contradiction in terms and not what we are used to. But we like it being different from the expected. A little bit like Tinguely when he twisted our minds some 50 years ago. It may look terrible by your standards but it’s fabulous by the new standards that we have invented.

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