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Ten years ago a friend of mine had bought a studio from an artist and she made it into her home. One year ago she discovered three small doors behind the kitchen interior at her home. She manage to open two doors. Behind the doors she discovered a small storage rooms, where the artist had stored works. Inside the first door the artist had stored an architectural model of the steps in front of the Icelandic University, where he obviously was planning to make small sculptures to decorate the access to the university. The model was had been made around 1940. Deep inside and behind the model was heap of female underwear and a cloth. These items had been teared and showed a mark of a struggle. She gave me these items as a raw material for a work. First I had the idea of digging up my youthful interest in semiotics and mix that with modern forensic science to wake up "Fama" and rumour a strong cultural character of Iceland. In that process I discovered that, the accuser element became dominating idea. As people know, there is no one who is a stronger moralist than the Christian Lucifer the accuser as he is called in the book of Job. That process ended in the decision of using four different female psychics to project their ideas on the items, with that I was able to step out of the moralistic role. When I am writing this now I see that it had been a way to make the works in that manner to, a different branch, different departments and different projections. In our Culture of "Bread and Games" the work could had become a trophy. |
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