Confessions Undone

Installation, mixed media, 2006

Confessions Undone is a six meter long corridor illuminated by a dim light. In the farther end of the corridor a piece of yellowish wallpaper full of printed text is hanging on the wall. A spotlight lights up the text throug the ceiling of the corridor to put focus on the text. The characters are in fine print and you cannot read them until you are intimately close. As soon as you start reading, the text starts to fade away.In order to read it you have to stand absolutely still for an eternity: about 40 seconds. Then the text reappears, as subtle as it went away. Naturally it will fade again if someone else moves closer or if you move again. The text is written like a stream of consciousness floating between forbidden desires and feelings about guilt and shame. It covers things that the author cannot deal with within himself. It discusses jeallousy, longing to die and the disability to love in a nauseous dark tale. The over all theme of the work is longing to belong and to be accepted and a fear to show yourself. The desire to fit in is accentuated by that the author nervously tries to state: This is who I am, I am normal, am I not?