It is like discovering an old album containing a collection of photographs. The images depict people we don’t know and yet know a lot about, although we don’t know anything. It is not a story with a beginning and an end, but rather a circle – in which certain behaviours and tendencies recur, and our inheritance finds expression in our behaviour.
Lars Norén worked on Still Life for more than a decade before the work was staged at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 2017. Now the work gains additional dimensions in an exhibition comprising stills, videos, texts and objects.
The exhibition was created by Lars Norén and Bobo Ericzén, a film director and photographer. Working together over 14 years, they created a unique documentation of theatrical work in Sweden, France and Belgium. Hundreds of hours of video and thousands of stills describe the creative process and the finished works. Using this collaboration as a starting point, Lars Norén and Bobo Ericzén created the exhibition Still Life.
The exhibition consists of images, videos, objects and audio recordings that turn the 90 images into a beautiful, living, gripping portrait of Sweden as it navigates 125 years of change.
