A Cave Speaks
22 June 2021
2021
Quadraphonic sound, seal jacket, cotton fabric, seal tooth
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Stora Förvar is the name of a cave on the island Stora Karlsö outside the coast of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. 400 million year old limestone embody the hollow and in the deepest layers of the soil floor traces of seal hunters from the Stone Age have been found. The installation explore the coexistence of geological deep time and time of human existence in the various layers of organic material. The materiality of the con-cave embodies the intersection of vertical and horisontal time still transforming into the present.
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April 2021, Exhibited at The Gotland Museum .
October 2025, Permanently installed at Rådhuset Region Gotland.