Söndervittrande, termitangripna helgonskulpturer har burits ut i solen en sista gång för att fångas med en hålkamera. Under skuggornas flykt kan skenet av skulpturernas borttynande tillvaro nu beskådas för all framtid i ett skimrande ljusspel.
Det började i en bortglömd by i södra Mexiko. I ett förråd bakom byns kyrka, bland överblivna helgon, änglar och dominikanska munkar, fann konstnärerna Geska & Robert Brečević persongalleriet till en serie arbeten där kärlek och förgänglighet har huvudrollen. Konstnärernas verk är ”förslag” på hur en samtida bildkult kan se ut. Förslag som fallit i god jord i den mexikanska ursprungsmiljö där denna bildvärld är ett levande kulturarv.
Skogskyrkogårdens öppettider: http://www.skogskyrkogarden.se/besok/visitors-center.php
The Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead is famous around the world, but here in Sweden there is also a tradition of marking Allhelgona, the Feast of All Saints, by lighting candles on family graves. So it feels appropriate that the first exhibition in Sweden of the works made during the Euroaxaca project should open on November 1st.
With the support of Stadsmuseet and the Mexican Embassy in Stockholm, we are bringing Amor es un lugar to our home city. The title of the show means ‘Love is a place’ and the first audience for the works love is a place within it were our friends at the Talleres Comunitarios in Zegache, a place that we have come to love.
Inspired by the baroque mirrors and nichos which they restore and make in their workshops, these pieces blend that aesthetic with the everyday materials and unrestored remnants which are also part of our impressions of the times we have spent as their guests.
At the same time, this is also part of our ongoing experiment in developing forms of animation that bring together digital tools with the techniques of early photography and moving pictures. The surprising presence of the past, the dance between old and new: these are among the themes that have framed our adventures together in the Euroaxaca project.
Join us to mark another turn in the cycle as this phase of our collaborations comes to an end.
@ The Woodland Cemetery, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Stockholm: http://www.skogskyrkogarden.se/besok/visitors-center.php
