2010

Installation
8 mm film transferred to DVD 05’00” loop silent

The work features a man that came from a life in Thailand to start a life Sweden.
A migration to for him an unknown place. As many do – by choice or by force.
He now has to create an everyday reality in which he can belong. Sometimes he thinks he sees a pattern resembling something he knows, a sensation that it is all the same, that it is all connected. The pattern of the birch trees in the forest in which he chops fire wood, the pattern on the wings of an owl, the pattern of the tiger tattooed on his back, once made there to stay by monks to protect him from his surroundings and to protect him from himself. The patterns merge together. The present. The past. Mirroring in the lake in front of him, and then dissolves like a hologram when a stone breaks the surface.

Exhibition view from Walk in Snow without leaving a trace; The 8 mm film ”The Birch Tree Forest (Gesture of Balance)” were projected directly on the wall and on and on wooden stick resulting in a divided wall projection

Exhibition views from TIMESPACE, WIESENBURG, Berlin (D) 2011

The film was projected on both on a small frosted plexiglass sheet that could be seen from both sides, and directly on the wall of the ruin. The installation was built up to correspond with the atmosphere of the ruined building and incorporated the structure of the wall, trees and other objects in the space. The installation changed in relation to the light and the image could at first only be seen on the small plexiglass projection and later when darkness fell also as a large projection on the wall.