© Jockum Nordström, Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner
The Anchor Hits the Sand
Artist
Jockum Nordström
(Sverige, född 1963)
Audio
Rudolf Nordström
Date2019
MediumPaper screen, paper figures, lamps with colored filters and music
DimensionsVarierande mått
ClassificationAudio Art, Installations
Credit LinePurchase 2021 with contribution from The Friends of Moderna Museet (Swedish Acquisitions 2021)
Countries
Object NumberMOM/2021/19
CollectionsRecent Acquisitions, Svenska förvärv 2021
The artwork is not on display
About the artworkPassing blue lights flicker through the studio windows and bring the paper pictures on the walls to life, inspiring Jockum Nordström to make a shadow theatre where the cut-outs become moving images. But rather than the identical look in the film, the figures here have a changing choreography, automated and random at the same time. The animation is accompanied by a hallucinogenic soundtrack, a collage from Jockum’s collection of 78-rpm records. His imagery is populated by characters that seem to come from folk art and penny dreadfuls – removed from time and space, where the boundary between sketch and finished work is erased. The shadow play appears on a screen of papers, like a poor man’s church window. It can also be viewed from inside, where a fragile theatre machinery of wire, rotors and coloured lights is revealed.