David Svensson

‍Relight is a new installation with a number of vases made from end-of-life fluorescent lamps. In the vases are white flowers such as Lilies, Calluses and Freesias. I think that what was the end of something also often meant a beginning of something new. I want to start from the end with fluorescent lamps that no longer work, the energy of which is spent. The fluorescent lights viii I transform into new objects in a simple, but at the same time refined craftsmanship in which the original identity of the lamps is still visible. The extinguished light, in its new form, may instead quench the thirst of different flowers.

Viewer. On the front gable wall is presented the 8 meter long and black carpeted carpet where 9 shadow images appear. A number of shadows of different viewers that have lingered and stuck on the surface, almost as if the carpet is carrying a memory. Many of us have at some point been fascinated by how to draw on a full drawing rug by combing the bangs of the carpet. The surface captures the light and then sends it back out into the room to the viewer. This, together with our movement in the room, provokes the shifts of the work. The temporary picture painted on site in Vandalorum's exhibition room shows both the perishable and fragile of each environment.

Absent Stories is the collective title of a group of collages consisting of blank book pages from the 19th century onwards. The pages, like the books, have different formats and paper quality. Most of them have changed color with age and they alternate between yellow, brown, red, blue and gray shades. I imagine that each individual page carries the memory of a story.

Dedicated is the title of the second series of collages displayed during the exhibition. The works consist of printed dedication pages from mostly old books and bear witness to life, death, time, memory, love and care. They form personal relationships with their viewer, and the different names set each one's thoughts in motion.

David Svensson (b. 1973 in Skillingaryd) works with light as a consistent theme for his art. For Ever is the title of both the exhibition and the smallest work presented at Vandalorum. The work is a book page where one can discern the text For Ever, which was developed on the paper with the help of sunlight.

^{Photo: Johann Bergenholtz}