Weighing 17 tonnes and shaped like upright pianos, 48 colossi guard the area north-east of Stockholm between Brunnsviken and Husarviken. They call us concrete pianos.
A photographic dokumentation 2021-2022.
A film by Björn Larsson and Anders K Ängsvik 2021.
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Sound and editing by Vladyslav Kamensky.
The Äspörace is a running competition 450 meter below ground level at at Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory, Oskarshamn, Sweden. The Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory is a research facility for future geological disposal of spent nuclear fuel.
Photographs 2017-2021
This is re-making a photographic examination 20 years later of nature-representation in a Swedish museum project from the last turn of the century - the Biological Museum.
Vägra Döda / Refuse to Kill
Refuse to Kill: The Stories of Conscientious Objectors is a research project run by Björn Larsson and Carl Johan Erikson, both former conscientious objectors.
A portrait of an art collector couple the last five years of their life.
Installation views from Prins Eugenes Waldemarsudde, 2012.
Photographs 1998-2000
This is a photographic examination of nature-representation in a Swedish museum project from the last turn of the century – the Biological Museum.
In this serie of photographs the motiv is cars more or less stranded outside the infrastructure of roads and in to nature. Handcolorist is Maha Keml, Cairo.
The Birdcather project is a collaborative work with artist Sookyoung Huh and dealing with birds and obsession. A startingpoint has been the works off Swedish biologist, zoologist and author Sten Berman. His trip to Korea 1935-1937 under Japanese occupation, his collected files for the National Museum of Natural History and his diary entries have served as a backdrop a number of works and exhibition.
A number of works in relation to a tradition of Nordic landscape imagery. The different works relate to paintings and photographs by Marcus Larsson(1825-1864) and Bruno Liljefors (1869-1939) Images from the site of an attempt to start a new school for landscape and the three different versions of his oilpainting are handcolored by egyptian artist Ehab Abdel Atif. The photographs by Bruno Liljefors are digitally colored by Eva Tèrez Gölin. The images from B Liljefors island Bullerö are in two versions handcolored by egyptian artists Maha Keml and Ehab Abdel Atif.
Movie made from performance at Konsthall Mellbyskogen in 2010.
The performance was inspired by a tale of virtuosity. Swedish landscape painter Marcus Larson (1825- 1864) once visiting Johan Ludvig Runeberg in Borgå, Finland made a bet. He was to start and finish a painting during the time of performing the Kreutzer Sonata by Ludvig van Beethoven.
Photographs 2002
Images from Livingstone, Zambia 2002.
Photographs , 2001-2006
The two series of photographs, Cairo 1974/2001 and Volgograd 1943/2005 presents images from two different wars that I have not witnessed. Instead I travelled to two museums: Volgograd State Panoramic Museum in Volgograd (Stalingrad), Russia and October War Museum in Cairo, Egypt.
Small deserts, Photographs and drawings,1992-1995
In this project I aim to describe a geological remnant from the last ice age. The vast timeline in contrast with the short-time characteristic of the photographic medium was the starting point.
Collection of sculpture, photographs, texts, t-shirts, homepage, bronze, 1994 -
This is a continuous collecting since 1994 of a kind of popular sculpture in stone– the stentroll ( swedish for a troll made of stone). The nature of the collector and its motive power was my startingpoint in this project.
Several rare works by the relatively unknown artist Edvin Alm has been donated to the museum. These all 23 pieces are individually different and delicately made and will soon be shown as a part of museum’s new presentation
Photographs and collection 2006-
sculpture, collection , 2006 –
A number of sculptural works originating from weaponlike cameras-lenses manufactured by Novoflex and Kiev.
Photographs and cooperation with hand colourists, 2001 –
Translationworks is a cooperative project together with hand colourists from Egypt. The foundation for the project is a possibility or a suggestion to view hand colouring of black and white photographs as an act of translation. Within this project there are different threads in different series of images. see below
I first met Artin in 2002 when i visited him and asked him to participate and handcolor portraits for me. This work continued with more than 40 images until his death four years later.
Hossni Elwy runs a portrait studio in Alexandria. I met him first time in 2006 and asked him to continue where Artin Seraphy left. Since then he has handcolored some 30 portraits for this project.
A ten year walk in a burnt down national park. Photographs, text,
In August 1999 a major forestfire ravaged the swedish national parc Tyresta. The rescue operation; including, the army, the navy, the fire-Brigade, the home defence, the police and volunteers; is one of the largest rescue operation in swedish history.
Ten years later I have visited the park over a period of ten years, each time collecting a visual archive of a new born landscape, so to speak. The work also consists of official texts from authorities involved in the rescue operation and the following criminal investigattion.