A poetic investigation of power – Ida Bergman's BFA exhibition at Konstfack

Welcome to the opening at Galleri Konstfack, Friday 24 March at 4 pm

looklooklook [datura]

I would describe my work as multidiciplinary and performative. A poetic investigation of power through pop-cultural mediums, ancient spells and daily life objects.

------------------------------------------------------------------

No borders between now and the ancient
Post-truth
The subject swallowed the object
The linear was bent into circle

And then you were transported through separate realities
All fragments of the shattered contemporary
To search for answers to its puzzling questions

Expansion as natural law and the holy individual

Maintaining of balance and the individual serving a collective

One has transformed ones creating act into a lyrical ritual, endlessly searching for catharsis
One has lost power to the paranoid observation of the created as a potential spell

In the beginning of time the world was sung out of singularity
A song still has potential of painting a future

For that reason one should be careful with what one sings

Guess one should sing balance, happiness and prosperity for all of the earth

But what if one becomes obsessed with singing something else?

Like ones own perdition?

(fighting the desire for expansion I lost against looklooklook [datura]) (text: Ida Bergman)

The exhibition is open Sunday 26 to Thursday 30 March, 1–6 pm

Daily performances from 4 pm

Konstfack, LM Ericssons väg 14, subway station Telefonplan