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artists & participants
Absalon,
Miriam Bäckström,
Idun Baltzersen,
Pedro Cabrita Reis,
Rune Hagberg,
Siobhan Hapaska,
Annika von Hausswolff,
Kimsooja,
Maria Lindberg,
LG Lundberg,
Truls Melin,
Jockum Nordström,
Primus Mortimer Pettersson,
Pipilotti Rist,
Peter Schuyff,
Sam Taylor-Johnson,
Marijke van Warmerdam,
Jordan Wolfson,
Remy Zaugg,
Johan Zetterquist
curators
press release
A Quiet Spring Wanders Through the Apartment
May 7–December 18, 2021
Magasin III reopens with the group exhibition A Quiet Spring Wanders Through the Apartment, which takes its point of departure in the rooms we create for our being. These rooms can be physical places, but also mental states that enable interpersonal encounters as well as introspection and a shield from the noise of the outside world. The exhibition brings together works from Magasin III’s collection that invite thoughts of the individual’s relationship to their broader context. The works evoke associations to issues of safety, personal freedom, restrictions and introversion—often with multifaceted perspectives.
In this moment, when our society has been shaken to its core, we have been forced to relate to a whole new set of limitations and to create new conditions for how we meet. There has been a displacement between the private and public, and social conventions are being renegotiated and adapted to a new reality. What are the conditions for togetherness? When is the seclusion self-selected and when is it involuntary and isolating? Regardless of personal circumstances, we are all part of a greater context and need to relate to it in one way or another. These thoughts are not unique to the time we live in—they recur in artistic practice and accommodate an abundance of perspectives.
The title of the exhibition is borrowed from the work En tyst vår vandrar genom lägenheten from 2015 by Jockum Nordström. Presented works in the exhibition are created between c. 1950 and 2018.