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4/4/2003

Paul Ramirez Jonas

Roger Bjorkholmen Galleri, Stockholm

Paul Ramirez Jonas makes photography and sculpture which involves remaking objects, events and experiments largely from the history of science and technology. His art is an explicit testament to history - technological and political, but it is also firmly connected to his own identity and position as an artist working today.


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Roger Björkholmen Galleri is proud to present new works by Paul Ramirez Jonas.

Paul Ramirez Jonas makes photography and sculpture which involves remaking objects, events and experiments largely from the history of science and technology. His art is an explicit testament to history - technological and political, but it is also firmly connected to his own identity and position as an artist working today.

The video "Ghost of Progress" was shot from a camera mounted on the handle bar of the artists bike, as he traverse a third world city. On the handle bar is a scale model of the Concorde, giving the crude illusion that the plane is flying through the city. The utopian hopes and ultimate commercial realities embodied by the Concorde are juxtaposed against a background of low-end street commerce, decaying architecture, pollution, and people going about their daily life and labour. The video is related to a group of Bruegel Proverb Paintings, in which the viewer can scan an entire village from a bird's eye, and observe all the ensuing mini dramas simultaneously.

In "Album: 50 State Summits" Ramirez Jonas has been hiking, climbing and sometimes simply driving to the highest point in each state. Upon reaching the top he has taken a self-portrait waving a hand made flag that says "OPEN". The photographs acknowledge in equal measures the photograph of Niel Armstrong on the Moon and the photograph of Sir Edmund Hillary on top of Mount Everest. In Ramirez Jonas action, there is no originality, no 'progress', no acts of possession or discovery. Rather they are reenactments in which he follow in other's footsteps.

Image: Album: 50 State Summits: Maine, 2002

Opening April 5, 1 -5 pm

Roger Björkholmen Galleri
Karlavägen 24
114 31 Stockholm
Ph. + 46 8 611 26 30

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