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System is based on a pre-fabricated wall system. The purpose of this kind of wall-system is to provide space for merchandise. With each sheet the wideness of the holes increase. My performance pieces often involve me in relation to other objects. In my piece Subject inside Object I stood inside a cardboard tube with my thumb sticking out through a hole.

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The artwork Shop is a sculpture of a store. Waste Product is made by the remaining material from the Shop. Without the holes in the shutter, no shutter, without the holes in the remaining material, no product. Photo: Catrin Andesson


Read text, Holes and consumption by Lars-Erik Hjertström

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The paintings are based on photographs of closed stores. The aluminium is spared out to create a shutter.
Photo: Susanna Hesselberg


Read text by Mats B

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Volume 1-18 are paintings of packaging that has been flattened out. Originally the boxes contained a camera, beer, nails, band-aid, a gas mask, pastry etc. Quantity consists of attachment holes and holes of a wall system in a metal sheet. Photo: Susanna Hesselberg

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Boxes are travelling on strings over the audience. They move towards me as if I was a magnet and I attach them to my body.

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The gallery as a commercial business inspired me. The exhibition consisted of paintings of credit cards and a sculpture of a cashbox. The visitors of the gallery actually moved in the bill and coin boxes.
Photo: John Håkansson

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Passage shows an account of the ten openings of the female body, the holes in a grater, the holes in a liner and the holes in a shopping basket.

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The holes of the toilet paper rolls and the spaces in between them are every bit as central as the toilet paper. Together they create patterns that filter the light. The theme of the exhibition was food – the only food in the room was that within the bodies of the visitors.

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The first time I used holes was in one of the pavilions of the Alma Löv Museum. I drilled right through the wooden walls and floor of the pavilion. I experienced at that moment the power of the holes.

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I sold foodstuff items over the counter – such as bananas, pork chops, and butter devoid of packaging or peel. The customer had to take the food directly in the hand. The work also revealed what was left, the rubbish.

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If a visitor rang the bell next to the object, the person behind the wall (and in front of) told him/her about the body part that was shown. One sentence was based on a scientific fact and the other was private.

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The Ice Cream was shaped like excrements. If you eat an apple it doesn’t come out in the form of an apple. 90% of the men choose Magnus and 90% of the women choose Doris. The dark one tasted dark chocolate and the lighter version chocolate and honey.

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