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Zeitgeist.—Needless to say, we are a zeitgeisty vehicle of presentation. And no doubt about that. The effects of this for you, turning this way and that in an attempt to perceive ‘us’, is that an imaginary cuts through real life in multiple, criss-crossing planes of intersection, dissolving the status of you as you and instead instigating a field of heightened, activated perception that has no clear beginning or end; no indication of which side we might be on: and, one last story: If we close our eyes, for a second or two, yes, if we close them, we can still see him quite clearly in front of us. Our grandfather. He is around 60 years old with billowy white hair. He is smoking a cigarette. He wanders on and off at his office. He is thinking. He says: “They are building some kind of fucking on-the-outside work that takes up more space than the actual act.” We are sitting in the sofa watching him intently. We say: “Interesting.” He continues: “For a second or so, you hardly believe it really happened… You know… That feeling… But…” He sits down, no, leans against his desk. He is tired. “But you have to move past that. Try to think over and under these small messages. You understand?” We say: “Continue”. “They might be fooling with us. What if all these messages are fake?” “Fake?” “That it is a fantasy, imagination, that has nothing to do with the act itself. A deliberate misinformation.” He looks at us. He looks away. Behind him a big print is mounted to the wall. White letters on a grey background spelling out the words: “Imagine being there without being there. It’s possible.”
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Installation view of imagine possible, Galleri Mejan (2025). Photo: Elmer Blåvarg
