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In Walid Raad’s art, strange things happen to works that are in vulnerable situations. When the covid-19 pandemic forced Moderna Museet to close in spring 2020, Raad’s works were left on their own in a deserted museum hall. The hosts who would have been there to greet visitors will instead share the exhibition in short videos.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
When Moderna Museet was forced to close due to the covid-19 pandemic, we decided to share the exhibition that had just opened, “Walid Raad – Let’s be honest, the weather helped” in a rather different way in different times.
We asked a few of our museum hosts, who normally greet and talk to visitors in the exhibition, to share Walid Raad’s works according to their own personal thoughts and experiences. They had all met Walid Raad earlier, when he held two master classes for our staff before the opening. Our ambition was to offer new interpretations of the exhibition “Walid Raad – Let’s be honest, the weather helped”, based on the new situation.
At the two-day workshops participants formulated their thoughts, ideas and observations, giving perspectives on the Museum and the exhibition under the current conditions. These thoughts were then expressed in short videos. Each participant became the sender of one of these videos.
The project was led by Ulf Eriksson, curator of learning, who invited Kristoffer Svenberg, artist and freelance art educator, to manage the process, filming together with the hosts and then editing the material.
The result was seven short videos that offer new doors into and interpretations of the exhibition “Walid Raad – Let’s be honest, the weather helped”.
