MERIÇ ALGÜN RINGBORG – A WORK OF FICTION
2013-09-02The exhibition comprises 3 main bodies of work: an environment, an audio narrative, and a manuscript for a novel – all characterizing the idea of an author and constructed using exemplifying sentences from the dictionary.
The environment, first compiled as a list of objects then manifested physically in the space, reflects the idea of an authors’ space and makes for a framework for the act of making. The audio narrative, titled Metatext, echoing in the space, mediates on the act of writing itself. Almost like a self-reflective script, it explores writing through its own making and through what it says and intimates. Here we encounter the apparent author speaking of a book recently written: I was toying with the idea of writing a book. A work of fiction. I didn’t know what I was doing. And I have to say. The first sentence is so hard to compose.
Finally, a novel, presented in manuscript form within the environment uses the same methodology in which nothing is written but rather compiled. It tells a detective-like story following the characters Maria, Mark and Peter. Romantic relationships develop into drama, murder and whatever else one might find in a more generic crime, romance or thriller book. The puzzling manner of writing reveals the methodology of its authoring as the story progresses.
Exhibition runs through to September 29th, 2013
Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm
Hudiksvallsgatan 8
SE-113 30 Stockholm
Sweden
