Fanny Look (Det finns ingenting vanligt i världen)

2007, wall drawing in black acrylic paint, app. 400 x 200 cm, b.w. printed essay 15 p. A5

1view inside the shop 2photo Malin Pettersson Öberg 3Fanny Look, frontal wall drawing 4Fanny Look, view wall drawing 5photo Malin Pettersson Öberg 6Fanny Look, spread publication 1 7Fanny Look, spread publication 2 8Fanny Look, spread publication 3 9Fanny Look, spread publication 4

Fanny Look (Det finns ingenting vanligt i världen) / Fanny Look (There is nothing ordinary in the world) is an exhibition I was invited to make, by curator Yuvinka Medina, at the Whyred store (Mäster Samuelsgatan 5) in Stockholm. In such a Swedish fashion temple I was intrigued to carry out a research, and display goods from, a completely different kind of trade – a Chinese wholesaler district in Paris, selling low quality children’s clothes. I built up a fictious narration around this district, situated along the street Rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin, through documenting elements of architecture, language and rumors. The result was presented as a printed essay that visitors could take, and a wall-drawing in the shop, depicting jeans display from one of the Chinese shops. This transfer, of low quality products into a fashion temple like Whyred, suggested a juxtaposition and temporary redistribution of the places within the aesthetical as well as social hierarchy.

There is nothing ordinary in the world (EN, 2007)

Det finns ingenting vanligt i världen (SE, 2007)

Review of the exhibition by Anders Olofsson, Konsten.net (SE, 2007)