Den ängen lyser grönast som ligger längst bort , part 1 (textsynthese IV)
(The greenest meadow is the furthest away)
Eva Beierheimer/Miriam Laussegger
Norrtälje Konsthall, Sweden 2011
The point of departure for “Textsynthese” is sentences or text passages selected from books provided by residents in Norrtälje. These sentences/ phrases are combined to create a new text. Each of the three exhibitions had its own text created from passages in these books. These texts, as well as the structure of the exhibition space itself, formed the installations. In the first installation, a door that is usually closed and hidden, was opened. A strip of grass was rolled out over the street, through the door and the room, and then outside the window to the garden on the other side.
At the following two installations the setting was changed and new objects were built accordingly to the generated exhibition text.
1. The gate stood open.
2. Such environs one has passed many times and cease to really see or care how they look
3. But sometimes they’re visible
4. The greenest meadow is the furthest away
5. a bright green…garden on the opposite side of the road
6. On one side are the remains of a door
7. a shadow that fell right at the gate
8. on the grass
9. forward it…across the road
10. From there you can see straight…to the window
11. Clearly contoured against the window square that is almost dissolved in the gloom
12. Here, the most important thing is to break rules, to destroy boundaries, and create something new
13. Of course, sometimes the thoughts came …out through the window
14. Walk to the stairs…down the stairs…outside into the yard
15. Elements can be assembled in many ways
16. That means, in both cases, something completely different than what they have been
