Supermarket takes a bold leap forward by that distance themselves from the Market and the Stockholm Art Week. The artist-run initiative exhibition has built his entire identity on to contrast against the commercial fingalleriernas försäljningsfest. At least from a public perspective. To go from one to the other has even become a treasured tradition in the Stockholm art scene.
And perhaps it is precisely the contrast Supermarket want to shake off. To avoid the alternative example. To show that it has an own, independent identity.
To set the various scenes to each other are also illustrative but hardly accurate. There is a flow between the art of different rooms, and many players are moving free in more than one scene.
the point of the Supermarket is also that the fair acts as a constantly expanding network, which connects several artist-run initiatives and offers the audience an international perspective that is otherwise very difficult to assimilate.
It looks like a view to the nomadic Supermarket in years has moved into the brand new Sickla Front. Interior walls and floors are not yet completed and the environment fits a quest after rebirth, at the same time as the raw surfaces indicates that the fair retains something of its ruffighet. It’ll be crowded and a bit chaotic at the Supermarket.
Among the year’s fifty exhibitors is the Netherlands, and Canada well represented with five and three exhibitors. In both countries, the distance between the artist-run and commercial operators less than in Sweden, which is reflected in well-planned and clearly curaterade stalls.
In particular, the Dutch participants will return to a search of alternative landscapes, which will be one of the main impressions from the whole of the fair.
for example, has filled its dark rooms with the interactive installation ”(Re)Discover Stockholm” by Jip de Beer, who has translated the sites he has found in the surrounding area to both physical and digital forms. The result is a dark, exhilarating world of the strange tower where the viewer with a console can jump around in the guise of a green figure. A smart visibility of a digital environment that represents a large part of our reality.
Jip de Beers interactive ”(Re)Discover Stockholm Photo: Jip de Beer
Something similar to make Data Bosma, as in the Nieuwe Vides alcove reveling in our collective attraction to staring at the cats in digital form. A couple of grotesque plastkatter, a blown-distorted image, and a loop with the mewing You Tube-animal becomes a nice punch to the face that goes in the Supermarkets the best spirit.
the Fair’s overall theme ”Temporary moratorium” is a temporary dissolving of standards and is most noticeable in the ambitious programme of talks and performance. Even if several exhibitors have a taste of various taboos.
very atmospheric ”Sweat milk from heaven”, which fills the Studio 44’s small rooms, is centrally placed in the exhibition hall, and an excellent example of a taboo that is rarely seen.
a Still image from the ”Sweat milk from heaven” by Nina Wedberg Thulin at Studio 44 Photo: Nina Wedberg Thulin
the Work consists of a cloud of cotton out of which a cacophony of voices flows out. If you place directly in the respective audio source can discern the words, which consists of artists who earnestly talk about their dreams with their art. To make an imprint is something that recurs. It feels intimate to listen and cast at the same time gives body to all the creative effort that is teeming with on the show floor outside of the ljudslussen.
the Other load-bearing impression of this year’s Supermarket is an overwhelming variety of really good painting, and a continued strengthening of the political, narrative embroidery.
Supermarket crackled even without the contrast to the Market, and you do not get enough in Sickla offers the fair for the first time also a series of satellitutställningar which opens this weekend.
