This is the first showing of an original project done especially for Foksal Gallery by one of Sweden's most interesting younger generation artists, Jonas Dahlberg.

Using video as a medium, Dahlberg's films testify to his interest in architecture, and specifically its relationship with the human psyche. To make his films he often uses extremely detailed architectural scale models of real or imagined spaces such as the hotel rooms and corridors in Untitled (Vertical Sliding) 2000, and Untitled (Horizontal Sliding), 2000/2001, or the architecture on a single street, as in One-Way Street, 2002. These mock-ups reminiscent of minimalist sculpture are then sometimes made part of the exhibition, As a result, his works exist somewhere in-between film, installation, and artistic intervention.

A recurring topic in Dahlberg's work is observation - the state of being under surveillance. Viewers are usually placed in the dual position of observer and observed. In the second instance, the unpleasant sense of being spied upon is paradoxically aggravated by the distressing absence of people. The exhibition at Foksal Gallery shows three photographs and a film. An attempt to create mental architecture of a home which is slowly dissolving.

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