{"id":3750,"date":"2026-03-16T10:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kivikart.frikommunikation.se\/?page_id=3750"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:00:31","slug":"memories-of-lakes-lost","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kivikart.frikommunikation.se\/en\/memories-of-lakes-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Memories of Lakes Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nHjelm presents a poetic meditation through a film installation, cinematic objects, and glass sculptures that together unfold into an immersive experience.\n<\/p>\n\n

\nIn the monumental four-channel film installation, music forms the point of departure. The film guides us through a series of panoramic landscape sequences accompanied by Johann Sebastian Bach\u2019s First and Second Cello Suites, in a new interpretation by the South African classical guitarist Derek Gripper. It is as if the film follows the music, rather than the other way around.\n\nIn the background, one can also faintly hear a tanpura drone and a long-necked fretless lute \u2014 instruments commonly used in Indian classical music. The exhibition also includes a series of glass sculptures with light animations, as well as a cinematic object that contributes to a multidimensional experience.\n<\/p>\n\n

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\nMusic has played a decisive role in several of Mats Hjelm\u2019s previous film projects \u2014 from black gospel music in Black Like Him (2007) to \u201cPassacaglia\u201d by Anna Ignatowicz-Glinska in his most recent gallery presentation Simple Sabotage Field Guide (2021)\n<\/p>\n\n

\nThis exhibition marks a shift in Hjelm\u2019s practice, where the wordless and non-narrative experience of the film is placed fully at the centre. Perhaps the perspective is not even human, and the protagonist may be nature itself, carrying deep memories of human presence. People sometimes appear on the screens, but more as a distant sensation or an image slowly fading away.\n<\/p>\n\n

\nIn Memories of Lakes Lost, Hjelm encourages us to reflect on our place in the world and to ask ourselves what kind of world we want to live in.\n<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n