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'Great Expectations' by Annalivia Lowendahl Atomic
Centrifug, Konsthall C, Sweden
10 October 2005 to 12 December 2005
Inside the empty Konsthall C I search for any visible signs of artwork by Swedish artist Annalivia Lowendahl Atomic. However, the only items I can find are twenty-one copies of the same paper press release stuck to the wall. Thoughts that this might be a last minute announcement of the exhibitions closure are quickly dismissed as each sheet of A4 is revealed to be a draft exhibition press release for Great Expectations, written by the artist. Each draft contains cut and pasted computer edits, personal annotations and frantic scribbles which boldly set a confessional tone and ruthlessly uncover the artist’s doubts concerning her artistic ability and motives for creating. Lowendahl Atomic is playing with our ‘expectations’ for this show, ‘great’ or otherwise, and she is not letting anyone, including herself, down gently. In the first sheet a barely visible “What’s the point?” is pencilled next to the exhibition title. Later on, page 16 bears a roughly written note next to the date of the artists’ last solo show in Sweden “5 YEARS! WHAT HAPPENED? I wanted to be a great artist, instead I’m just a silly girl in...
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