Grimmuseum presents the solo exhibition State of Conservation by swedish artist Tobias Sjöberg. In the exhibition Tobias Sjöberg continues to explore the mechanisms of action and repetition – as a means of both becoming a part of something greater outside oneself, a unified ‘we’, and, on a purely personal level, of losing oneself in oneself, in an inner incantatory self. A state somewhere between rhyme and reason.
The title of the exhibition, State of Conservation, refers to UNESCO’s definition of world heritage sites, as well as to the paradox of conservation and its attendant problems. With this as the point of departure, the works in the exhibition revolve around notions of conservatism, culture, heritage and civilisation.