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The show was curated by Grönlund - Nisunen and realized
in collaboration with Leif Elggren, Carl Michael von Hausswolff
and Anders Tomren.
The starting point for the exhibition was the exhibition
space itself, the modernist pavilion building from 1962, designed
by Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn. We di not want to construct
the exhibition around some formal concept, but wanted the
exhibition space and the setting it provided to naturally
set the direction for the work of the working group and for
th ecarrying out of the project. The exhibition is the outcome
of six months' collaboration between five artists. Instead
of a traditional joint exhibition, we can talk rather of a
collectively made installation.
The Nordic Pavilion is a work, an exhibition and an exhibition
space. The exhibition deals with the visible and the invisible,
and with the shifting boundary between them. The atmosphere
of this unassuming exhibition that blends into the pavilion
architecture is formed out of subtle changes in spare visual
elements and sounds. The working group wants to stress the
collective nature of the project by not naming or crediting
the individual works - the parts of the installation made
by each artist/artist duo in their own country will remain
anonymous and will be interlinked into a single whole in the
pavilion. Th especially constructed radio receiver/transmitter
receives all radio frequencies simultaneously. The outgoing
signal, which is audible in the space and is also relayed
via the transmitter on a single frequency, contains all the
information travelling on all radio wavelenghts. The space
in the pavilion isi divived up by glass partitions, their
transparency changing gradually. Hundreds of short pieces
of steel wire have been suspended across the longest wall
in the space. These move in relation to each other, gradually
forming shifting kinetic patterns.
A special catalogue release for the Nordic Pavillion exhibition
including a 10" record and a 110-page photography book is
available for purchase at www.sahkorecordings.com
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