exhibitions
BAKOM ÖGONLOCKEN
LARS LENGQUIST
Jan 17th - March 1st 2020
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"The smell of the hospital's glossy floors,
rotting flowers, and Greek temple ruins.
Pictures from my visual background noise.
What is played up when I close my eyes."
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The red lanterns that hang above the tree tops, the rooftops and along the highways are, in Lars Lengquist's world, points of comfort. And the endless linoleum floors in the corridors of the hospital are a place where neighbors rush around on wheeled boards instead of legs. A place where both the smell of morphine stomachs and aspiring doctors take place.
The old aviation fleet in this exhibition is hidden under layers of snow, and the beautiful rotting flowers are reminiscent of an edgy debate climate and the comfort of the fact that the apocalypse is likely to give life to something new.
And everywhere people close their eyes, and play their own inner films behind their closed eyes.
"My thoughts revolved around my visual heritage. As it was there all the time. My own pictures. My background noise. Which could not be categorized or arranged in styles or eras. The things that I had always been drawn to, and for which I had a kind of tactile deeper feeling. The things that were nothing special, but that always caught my attention. Things that make me warm. Which I simply like." - READ MORE HERE!
When Lars started to photograph some of these pictures: Huddinge hospital, vanita motifs, comforting telephone posts, people closing their eyes, the closed down aircraft fleet F18, the backyard of the divorce apartment at Kungsholmen and the power plant in Umeå, the pictures did not always get as strong as they were in his head.
But some pictures became powerful and different, and somewhat deviated from his basic intention. they became something else. But always with some form of magical connection to the those basic moments.
As it always is, behind your eyelids.
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CV:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2007 Galleri Rostrum – Malmö, Sweden
2007 Galleri The Basement – Västerås, Sweden
2007 Ljusgården, Umeå kulturförvaltning – Umeå, Sweden
2007 Allmänna Galleriet AG925 – Stockholm, Sweden
2007 Galleri Vol. – Stockholm, Sweden
2008 Kulturens hus – Luleå, Sweden
2008 Galleri Vallberga – Ystad, Sweden
2009 Galleri Vol. – Stockholm, Sweden
2011 Väsby Konsthall – Upplands Väsby. Sweden
2011 Vänersborgs Konsthall – Vänersborg, Sweden
2012 Nacka Konsthall – Nacka, Sweden
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2006 EnVar – Kulturhuset – Stockholm, Sweden
2007 The Best of the Basement – The Basement – Västerås, Sweden
2009 Liljevalchs vårsalong – Stockholm, Sweden
2009 Kulturens hus – Luleå, Sweden
2009 Marsvinsholms skulpturpark – Ystad, Sweden
2009 Richard Levy Gallery – Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
2010 Galleri Vallberga – Ystad, Sweden
2010 Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Marsielle, France
2011 Liljevalchs vårsalong – Stockholm, Sweden
2011 Serial Box Video Festival – Colombia, Missouri, USA
2011 Naoussa International Film Festival, Greece
2011 FIKE 2011 – 10th International Short Film Festival, Portugal
2013 Mediavawe Film Festival, Fort Monostor, Komárom, Hungary
2013 Outcasting – Wales, UK
2014 Voices From The Waters – International Film Festival,
National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore, India
2015 RVA Environmental Film Fest, Richmond, Virginia, USA
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OPENING NIGHT / VERNISSAGE
Jan 17th 2019, 17.00 - 21.00
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