• installation, Verksmidjan Hjalterey, 2021

Fool's Paradise, 2021

Animated drawing

Single channel vertical 4K / HD projection, sound

Installation: projection on shaped screen, size 350 x 150 cmDuration 3:42 ,endless loop

Excerpt of essay by Aleksandra Oilinki:

"Escaping most often entails the promise of a better place. Animation Fool’s Paradise combines visual fragments found on the mysterious paradise on the island of Källskär in Kökar, Åland. A Swedish baron named Göran Åkerfield, referred by the locals as “the Count” built an eclectic combination of Scandinavian and Mediterranean influences, creating his own haven on the Baltic Sea. In the animation, Källskär island as a closed world finds its counterpart of another isolated island in the South Pacific in Tonga. There a stranded group of boys thrived for a whole year in a real-life story of a paradise quite the opposite of the brutal chaos depicted in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. The illusion of transformation that the sculptures create – a sort of dissolution of an image from three-dimensional to two-dimensional and further into individual brushstrokes – continues in a more fluid flow in the animation. The foot of the bronze statue of Hermes runs and leaks like liquid, growing an ankle in place of its heel, re-emerging soon after as a hand with other forms running through it, shifting and flowing in organic movement. Hummingbirds lead the way as the black-and-red bugs, native to the area, creep their paths on the screen. Words appear, form sentences, and disappear like fleeting thoughts, imperfect and reflective as spoken word. The handwritten texts have spread onto the walls of the gallery, expanding the animation beyond its borders, submerging the viewer deeper into its world."

Complete essay by Aleksanra Oilinki is found on Galerie Anahava's Viewing room