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Ett möjligt mem
© Maria Jacobsson/Bildupphovsrätt 2024
Ett möjligt mem
Ett möjligt mem
Photo: Tobias Fischer/Moderna Museet

Ett möjligt mem

by Maria Jacobson
Artist (Sverige, född 1991)
Alternate Title
  • Possible meme
Date2021
MediumMDF
DimensionsYttermått: 92,5 × 169 × 18,5 cm
ClassificationInstallations, Sculptures
Credit LinePurchase 2021 (Swedish Acquisitions 2021)
Object NumberMOM/2021/377:1
CollectionsRecent Acquisitions, Svenska förvärv 2021
The artwork is not on display
About the artworkAre these shapes cut out of MDF board abstract sculptures, symbols or linguistic signs? Maria Jacobson explores the boundary between different concept categories. She is fascinated by our urge to read and order our surroundings – our constant search for patterns, meanings and connections. This installation is called Possible Meme. According to the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, a meme is “A unit of cultural inheritance, hypothesised as analogous to the particulate gene, and as naturally selected...” Memes, according to Dawkins, include tunes, clothes fashions, catchphrases, ways of making pots and the technologies for building arches. In Jacobson’s installation, the shapes slip evasively within and between categories and eras. They reflect acquired knowledge and inherited memories – passed down from one generation to the next.
 Signatures, inscriptions and marks Osignerad