Exhibition. Galleri CFF
Fredrik Sweger: The Garden in My Head
Fredrik Sweger
20210508 - 20210613
For several years, Fredrik Sweger has explored the relationship between humans, nature, and his own imagination. In the exhibition “The Garden in My Head,” he examines identity, transience, time, and memories – with everyday life as a backdrop.
The exhibition’s title refers to the ability to develop with the help of imagination, but also to literally cultivate one’s own garden. Throughout history, humans have tamed nature, and the garden is perhaps one of the forms where this becomes most evident. The exhibition also features many images of a kind of urban nature. Or a wild nature with urban elements, where humans have lost control. Fredrik Sweger is interested in the clash that occurs when humans are no longer able to tame nature and the state that arises as a result.
The exhibition’s theme thus revolves around two opposing poles, where cultivated still lifes on the one hand are contrasted with nature’s re-conquest of the human environment. The poles form a field of tension that in a way can be understood as a reflection on how life on earth is shaped by humans.
