Revolution
This graduate exhibition is focused on poetic freedom and the act of manifesting it. The main imaginary is borrowed from the mid 1700 and early romantic landscape paintings. These artifacts express a political strive (still a dream) for the good, just and natural society. In utopia all seems simple: everything has a clarity without friction.
The French Revolution had dreams of the good society (and the declaration of rights was it's manifest). The French revolution was like a great living theater, with ideals that finally met reality with tragic consequences.
If we momentarily ignore the terror and tyranny from the end of the French Revolution and instead start focusing on its utopian beginning, with all its hopes and dreams within reach. To me enlightenment can have a positive energy. It deals with what is best for all in the future and don't worry about what is realistic to do right now.
Being realistic we often stop when anticipating problems. Insted we could lend some of the revolutionary positive energy, have confidence in ourselves, and try to make our dreams of a good society come true.
I have a feeling that a new time have come (year 2001) and that the meaning of revolution is to be really open for all kinds of unexpected and fantastic events.

Stage set
The three-dimensional works are constructed as theatrical scenery with obvious front and back. The back reveals the visual deception.

Constellation
A pattern of separate objects with different distances from each other that interact in different ways.
I used the term constellation to explain the way I put together works and the exhibition as a whole. Various media and expressive means was collected and put side by side in crossreferential way. To juxtapose two and three dimensional works, painted and photographic images, artifacts and object trové is a way to understand the quality of each media as well as to transgress borders. The idea of merging and juxtapose is important.