ART CITIES:Stockholm-Like A Prayer

Every single day we realize that that the situation of the world around us is uncertain. Our era is characterized by anxiety, violence, poverty, and decease. The intention with the exhibition “Like A Prayer” is to offer a poetic interpretation of moments of crisis in which objects, both antique and contemporary, can be seen as a kind of prayer.

By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: Magasin III Archive

The exhibition “Like A Prayer” presents works by fourteen artists from Magasin III’s collection together with a group of Etruscan votive offeringstogether with a group of objects from the collection of The Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities of Stockholm. The artworks are both fragile and forceful investigations of highly personal or Collective experiences and memories, some of the works are direct interpretations of real life situations, like Mona Hatoum’s “Nature morte aux grenades”, and some other works give a physical form to abstract emotions evoked by current events, like Per B Sundberg’s “Object with Hole” or Eitan Ben-Moshe’s “The Escapist”. This is the first time many of the artists are being exhibited at the museum also are featured works by Lars Nilsson and Per B Sundberg that are new additions to the museum’s collection. The curators Richard Julin and Tessa Praun, have selected also twenty-five Etruscan votives from The Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities’ collection to exhibit. All the objects represent human body parts. These objects were offered in gratitude for or in the hope of a cure for illness or other afflictions. This juxtaposition of contemporary and antiquity, can be seen as a sort of prayer in a world rife with poverty, violence, anxiety and disease. Works by: Eitan Ben-Moshe, Louise Bourgeois, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Mona Hatoum, Emil Westman Hertz, Sigalit Landau, Matts Leiderstam, Sirous Namazi, Maria Nepomuceno, Lars Nilsson, Linus Nordensson Spångberg, Ulf Rollof, Peter Schuyff and Per B Sundberg.

 

Info: Like A Prayer, Curators: Richard Julin & Tessa Praun, Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art, Frihamnsgatan 28, Stockholm, Duration: 11/9-13/12/15 & 6/2-5/6/16, Days & Hours for 11/9-13/12/15: Tue: 11:00-19:00, Fri-Sun: 11:00-17:00, www.magasin3.com