Context
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 for the good and natural society. In the utopian dream all seems simple, it's a clarity without friction.
The French revolution was like a big living theater, with ideals that finally struck in to reality.
To me enlightenment can have a positive energy. It deals with ideals and don't worry about what is realistic to do. We often stop when anticipating problems. I think we could lend some of this positive energy, have confidence in ourselves, and try to make our inner dreams come true.
The exhibition
The three dimensional works were built like theater stage set with a front and revealing backside.
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 was a way to understand the quality of each media as well as to transgress borders. The idea of merging and juxtapose was important.
I had a feeling that a new time had come and the revolution was to bee really open for all kinds of unexpected events.