CHANCE

The Moderna Museet collection

contains

so many works that most of them are in storage.

The

chance

encounters that arise when works are put away,

close to each other

with no

particular plan

, sometimes

reveals new aspects of

images

that

we thought we knew well.

At first glance, this screen is a muddle of artistic styles,

ideas

and subjects.

And yet, all the works could be described as portraits – personal or idealised pictures of people; portraits of other artists, snapshots, and a portrait of

mountain the artist

Etel

Adnan saw every morning when she woke up.

Together, they are also perhaps a portrait of the multitude of impressions, lives, voices

and

narratives

that make up

the Moderna Museet collection.

In the museum galleries, works are often shown side by side with other works from the same period or context where their underlying ideas meet.

When not on display, they are stored close together on screens in a

storage

With its

randomly mixed

screens, the Study Gallery is sort of in between a warehouse and an open space where art is presented to the public.

This

particular screen

shows a few disparate works in the way they are stored, where

what is shown next to what is

pure coincidence

Often, this can give rise to fortunate encounters between works of art from widely different periods and styles, and the unexpected links

this

generate

can

show us

something new, when we read the works across time and space.