Art in Luleå – Summer 2011

This is some photos I took in Luleå, Sweden this summer. The art was part of an exhibition at “Kulturens hus”. I really liked the artwork called “total equality”. The installation was made by Monika Zaltauskaite and the text presenting the artwork reads:

We all have our ways of socially “dressing up” in predestined uniforms of social habits, behavior and ethical dogmas.

When I saw the artwork it made me think of destiny, of how our genes aswell as the environment we grew up in influences the choices we make in our lives. The old question of the existence of a free will. Are we born into a costume that we (are forced to) wear for the rest of our lives or can we design our own ? I think we are born with some material for our costume and some material we find along the way. How we put these parts together is up to us, how brave we are, how open minded, what we think is beautiful. But the interesting question if you look at it in this way is what shapes our opinion of how a beautiful costume looks like ? Genes, social environment or are there something more ? Again, does free will exist ?

Grafitti Guernica

I stumbeled over this awesome paraphrase some time ago. I will post both the original to remind you how it looks and the modern version :)

Open art – Örebro

This is one of the coolest public sculptures I have seen. It is located on a square in Örebro, Sweden and is a part of the open art festival. The sculpture, that is made of wood, looks like a big toy bunny that has been drop on the square by some giant child. A nice detail is that it is leaning against an old statue of some famous person. That gives the sculpture a connection both to the physical surounding but also creates a bridge from the present to the past. It is really cool!