ENSLINJEManual II

The installation of old works

Lotta Hannerz at Eskilstuna Art Museum14/3 - 23/8 2020

ENSLINJE

"To think? ... To think! Is to loose the thread." Paul Valéry

This exhibition is an excavated past, a portable present and an imagined future. The past,the present and the future "mise en abyme" inside each other.

The past" consists of works borrowed from collectors and museum and works leading upto the present.

A condition for "the present" was that it could be packed into a suitcase as a travelerbetween here and there, between then and now. The new works therefore had to be lightweight and fold-able.

"The future" is a hunch about a prospective exhibition.

Over time, I have become interested in memory and how we remember. And that hasbecome worse with the data age. We have more information, but our memory is nowexternal to compared with oral and often nomadic cultures where the memory is internal.Complex memory systems and multifaceted tales allow these cultures to carry vastamounts of information about the practicalities of flora and fauna, cycles, naturalphenomena, medicine, technology and crafts as well as their own history generationsback in time. This visual map* brings a different perspective than our dissected andclassified reality. In this information age it is easy to see only the pine needle and not thewhole forest.

Looking back at my own work has made me realize how unreliable the thought is. Whatseemed crystal clear at the moment might later turned out to have a completely differentmeaning. Sometimes I blush when I realize how narrow-minded my own perspective wasin that moment. The idea is usually much more ambiguous than that. One cannot rely onone's own interpretation. Many thoughts also returned. Like echos. They fall in line witheach other, but with a certain displacement. As single lines not fixed in space but in time.We never step into the same river and but however clear the water is, even the straightestline will deform.

Lotta Hannerz, 2020

(Swedish for piloting) - Using fixed points called "range markers", to form a "leadingline" or "range axis" along which to navigate safely.

- French term, originally derived from heraldry, is a formal technique of placinga copy of an image within itself, often in a way that suggests an infinitely recurring sequence.An image in an image. Literally means means "placed into abyss".

* - A strategy of memory enhancement which uses visualizations of familiar spatialenvironments in order to enhance the recall of information. In human development, stories wereused to remember everything that had to do with our survival. In Australia, the indigenouspeople have song lines where the whole landscape is a memory map.

Circumstances

Lacuna

Culture

Blue Heaven

Jabberwocks

Witness Marks

Notes-14

”Kan du svara, jag är inte hemma”

”C’est vrai”

Mimicry

Balance

Peek a Boo

Enlightenment

Passage

Glasses

(Point of) convergence

Residue

Camera obscura

Divide and conquer

3:an

Entrance

Lacuna - 2009 - oil on cut-out PVC & string - 97 x 104 cm

World Maker

2014

painted & patinated bronze

180 x 60 x 60 cm - edition of 3

”C’est vrai” 2018

acrylic on MDF, oil on aluminum, bronze

131 x 120 x 20 cm

Fold out!

Top view

Circumstances 2005polyview - oil on polycarbonate140 x 200 cm

Residue 2015oil on canvas130 x 160 cm

Perpendicular bronze figure

Divide and conquer 2018

acrylic on wood, paper clay, textile, kapok

60 x 80 x 33 cm

Witness Marks (Notes-18) 2018

acrylic, putty relief on wood, oil on PVC

85 x 118 cm

Glasses 1998

oil on canvas

2 pcs / 81 x 33 cm

Balance 2004-08

level, wood, string, glass & fake ice cube

67 x 60 x 7 cm - Edition of 5

vertical

vertical

Totalheight224cm

Total length 345 cm

Door edge to painting edge 189 cm

77cm

fromthefloor

43 cm from the floor

117 cm from the floor

185 cm from the floor

Jabberwocks 2018

acrylic on wood, lead weight, textile, wire

steel base, teak 160 x 50x 50 x 120 cm

Passage 2005oil on cut-out PVC & acrylic glass

224 x 345 cm

”Kan du svara, jag är inte hemma” 2018

Translation: Can you answer, I’m not home

acrylic/oil on MDF /plywood/PVC/teak veneer

200 x 122 x 38 cm

Camera obscura 2014

oil on canvas

150 x 140 cm

55

190 x 276 x 80+ cm

82

3160

230

170

195

207

32 195

207

CENTERLINE

70

Screw

Nail

Line

Enlightenment 2018

acrylic/oil on MDF / PVC / wood, veneer, paper clay, teak, brass,rope, steel and string

200 x 195 x 70 cm

(Point of) convergence 2018

acrylic/oil on MDF, oil on PVC

120 x 210 cm

Notes-14 2014oil on canvas20 x 145 cm

Culture 2008oil on board

4 pcs / 130 x 28, 38, 60, 65 cm

On the wall behind this cornerBlue Heaven 2013

papier maché, wood & brass wire

180 x 44 x 108 cm

266 cm

166cm

100 cm

Peek a Boo 2018

acrylic/oil on wood, PVC, paper clay, wire, paper, chamois,kapok, teak total 140 x 166 x 15 cm

NOW

( )

Mimicry 2018

papier maché, paper clay, string, wood, found objects

104 x 59 x 38 cm

Works from the present

One condition for the new works wasthat they were compact and lightweight and fit into a small bag/box

FUTURE:

100cm

150 cm

120 cm

Ruler 202030 x 45 x 7 cm

Bronze, coffee teak, textile, wire

Model contains the piece Indigenous with a flickering candle in a cave scene and 8 small Inklings - blurred paintings and a 1/6 scale witness.

For titles, material and installation see manual I