This kind of straightforward durability is the appropriately mundane ground for the inaugural exhibition of Mariam Elnozahy’s first program as Konsthall C’s artistic director. It would have been easy to open a program along these thematic lines with something confrontational, but instead Elnozahy reproduced, inside the gallery, the meditation room from the UN headquarters in New York. The room was renovated in 1957 by the Swedish aristocrat and state economist turned unlikely international diplomat and UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld. Bo Beskow was the fourth son of Natanael Beskow, a leading Swedish theologian, radical pacifist, and spokesperson for women’s suffrage. The room is still used by ordinary people in the neighborhood seeking a place to pause and reflect in silence.

Source: The Guardian November 06, 2024 16:28 UTC