In early summer 2024, I drive up to my cabin at the outermost strip of sea, the Hälsinge coast. Bored at E-4, checking email, sender Nationalmuseum, thinks it’s spam and throws it away. When I take a break and read email, it turns out that Carl-Johan Ohlsson, Curator Nationalmuseum Stockholm, asks if they can exhibit two of my photographs from the Biological Museum in connection with 100 Bruno Liljefors being exhibited in Paris, would be grateful, would like to meet.
When we meet, I ask how they found me “no one knows what I do, I’m not a name and art photography is a fairly new activity for me that I am having fun with for my own pleasure” he replies “we got a tip from the Biological Museum” and apropos the exhibition “you are the only living artist”.
Background:
In 2017, I read that the Biological Museum Djurgården is closing, that there are priceless original paintings by Bruno Liljefors. I decide to try to do a private photoshoot among the animals stuffed with arsenic, the environment inspires me.
1991 – 2004 I worked as a forensic photographer at Stockholm county police, crime scene unit. I shooted crime scenes, from a helicopter or in a microscope environment. Those years have given my visual language a streak of darkness that I sometimes use.
Petit Palais gets in touch soon after with their two selected motifs from the “Dark fairytale” series. They say “Your photographs create a bridge from the past to the present.” I was invited to the General Opening on September 29 and the Private Opening on September 30 with a subsequent cocktail offered by Sweden’s Ambassador in Paris Håkan Åkesson.
