Sunday, 6 July 2008

Melt, by Anna Berndtson

Uppsala Art Museum

A discreet deluge is played out in the project room of the Art Museum. A well dressed hostess with her dark felt pen annihilates the outlines of the continents on the terrestrial globe in front of her.
The good looking woman and the power ball. The hostess in front of the world map. These two images from a world of success are contrasted with the action of the artist. She paints it black, and she paints it blue and with every itching sound of the pen a part of the world is deleted.
It took a while for this work to reveal itself in my reflective mind. The sponsor logotype in the program made the final difference. I realized how a new dimension of the work could be opened with a click on my computer, and I realized the catch. The work introduced me to the world of fitness, it is about world fitness, as well as friction and heat, and at the same time it is good publicity for the sponsor.

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