Silver Box, 2025

Serigraphy on paper

Silver Box is a spatial collage which consists of hundreds of individual silkscreen prints. Prints are glued on to the gallery walls, and therefore demolished once the exhibition is dismantled. The starting point of my work was to create an installation that could be seen as a momentary experience. The artwork itself is strictly connected to traditions of printed art – emphasizing materiality and the physical, slow, even heavy workflow of printmaking. Imagery is gathered from old guidebooks, which were popular especially in home libraries during the 70s-90s. When searching the information shifted to the digital age, browsing the pages of printed picture books also lost their significance. The discarded books at recycling centres tell a story of everyday problems to which people were seeking answers at the time. Archival images reflect their own era, which can be a powerful way of storytelling in itself. In this work, a combination of images removed from their original contexts strive to create an open-ended narrative for the viewer to interpret. The momentary nature of the installation is a reference to other produced printed items as well, such as posters glued to the street. When looking at the work, one can reflect on how technological development has changed the search for information. The work itself examines nostalgia, outdated printed media and the use of archival images in art. Above all, it seeks to raise a question about the value of a fine art print in relation to its presentation format.