Malmo Kunsthall……’How to Call a Ghost’.

 ‘How to Call a Ghost’ is the apt title of an exhibition at the Malmo Kunsthall by Moroccan-French artist Bouchra Khalili. 

Since the early 2000s, Bouchra Khalili, has created works that focus on the power of story telling through film and video. She addresses issues related to belonging, community, and democracy so the exhibition is a powerful critique on past injustices through authenticate voices. 

Her work ‘reflects the current situation in the EU (socially, politically, and historically), where the right to belong has been based on exclusion’. The Malmö Konsthall is not new to presenting  how art can speak to politics and recognises how the issues Khalili lays bare are relevant to this region and for the City of Malmö, home to more than 180 different nationalities. 

‘The exhibition is based on the idea of the circle – the absence of a beginning and an end – but also on the circle as a gathering point for traditional oral storytelling. In Morocco, “al halaqa”, gathering in a circle around the storyteller, is a tradition that is several hundred years old. Halaqa literally means “circle”, “ring” or “assembly” in Arabic’.

Leaving Stockholm

 

Stockholm snaps!

 

Moderna Mussett

Moderna Mussett is ‘angry’! And there’s a good reason. 

‘The Subterranean Sky’ exhibition is an extensive surrealist collection and reflective of a time many artists rebelled against conventional art and against the fascism and authoritarianism that bedevilled the world, in ‘the wake of the horrors of the First and Second World Wars’.

‘The House of Nisaba’ is an exhibition of international artists who respond to the world we are living, ‘a time that knowledge is changing and information circulates at an unprecedented pace and narratives about ourselves, our communities, and the world at large are becoming increasingly unstable

 

Brassai in Paris

‘The secret signs of Paris’ is an exceptional exhibition of over 160 black and white photographs taken by Brandao in the early 1930s of Paris after dark. 

They are full of pathos and passion for the Paris bathed in shadows and light. A truly evocative portfolio of one of the most famous world photographers. 

Venice of the North!

 

Oslo to Stockholm

 

Vigeland Park….last visited in 1972!

Oslo is a city we last visited in 1972 in a Citroen 2CV on our way to Lapland and the Arctic Circle. The expectation was that we would see another Oslo! But the Vigeland Sculpture Park was much as we remembered. 

We do have black and white photos taken with a camera and now the photos are in colour and are instantaneous to view so we can edit and trash. Such is life as we have known and now know it. 

The sculpture is soaring  in its impact in a park setting and surrounded  by smaller sculptures reflecting human growth and familiarity.