Yes-banner, homage à Yvonne Rainer, double sided textile/banner 5x2 meters, 2008

Documentation from the exhibition “Tell a Friend” at Bonniers konsthall in Stockholm. On the side of the textile facing the street it says: if it’s art it’s not for all, if it’s for all it’s not art.  On the side facing the cafeteria of the art space a factories say to another: - To see the whole picture you have to see the other side. – Well I’m stuck, the other one answer.

The first works I made when getting out of art-school was a couple of flags and banners. Now I clearly see it as a reaction to what it meant to be out. The first year I worked without a studio so I had to find other ways to make and show my work.  The statement about art on this banner I picked up in a lecture held by the artist/dancer/film maker Yvonne Rainer. The banner posts questions of institutional critique and my own position and what strategies I use as an artist. It talks about the ambivalence on how to stay alternative and political within the institution: The contradictory feeling of wanting to be included and excluded of a structure at the same time.