© Carola Grahn/Bildupphovsrätt 2024
Horizon of Me(aning)
by Carola Grahn
Artist
Carola Grahn
(Sverige, född 1982)
Date2021
MediumInstallation, birchwood, letters
DimensionsYttermått (från utställningen Svenska Förvärv): 200 × 600 × 65 cm
ClassificationInstallations
Credit LinePurchase 2021 (Swedish Acquisitions 2021)
Countries
On view
StockholmRoomGallery 01:8
Object NumberMOM/2021/155
CollectionsRecent Acquisitions, Svenska förvärv 2021
About the artwork
This sculpture forms a horizon of birch logs stacked according to the artist’s detailed instructions that the monotonous task should be performed in private while talking about mental health. This work was first performed in 2015, following a surge of suicides in Sápmi. When entrusting the work to Moderna Museet, Carola Grahn outlined how it can be performed here. For the Pink Sails exhibition, the wood was stacked by two museum technicians. In line with a view of the world where nature is animate, the firewood is imagined to harbour these stories, as the forest is said to listen to human confessions. In addition, the long, fragrant stack is a silent testament to physical effort, and a promise of future fires.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Osignerad Selected exhibition history Rosa segel. Svensk modernism i Moderna Museets samling (den 17 juni 2023 - den 3 augusti 2025) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Nyförvärvsutställningen (den 5 februari 2022 - den 14 augusti 2022) Moderna Museet, Stockholm
This sculpture forms a horizon of birch logs stacked according to the artist’s detailed instructions that the monotonous task should be performed in private while talking about mental health. This work was first performed in 2015, following a surge of suicides in Sápmi. When entrusting the work to Moderna Museet, Carola Grahn outlined how it can be performed here. For the Pink Sails exhibition, the wood was stacked by two museum technicians. In line with a view of the world where nature is animate, the firewood is imagined to harbour these stories, as the forest is said to listen to human confessions. In addition, the long, fragrant stack is a silent testament to physical effort, and a promise of future fires.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Osignerad Selected exhibition history Rosa segel. Svensk modernism i Moderna Museets samling (den 17 juni 2023 - den 3 augusti 2025) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Nyförvärvsutställningen (den 5 februari 2022 - den 14 augusti 2022) Moderna Museet, Stockholm