New (deviant) Participants 2008: Kristina Bength

–There was once a time when the attention turned towards another then, tried to pull it into a future and make memories of it. It could have been thus. Or thus. The frame was there and the body tried leaning against it, but the touch stopped at the images blocking the way. A shut door to an inaccessible room. A covered window, wallpaper and the wallpaper’s patterns, all merged in an experience of perishing. Events that had passed when the attention gracefully and carefully tried to conquer them never returned. The same for all events, then as now. And it was easy to regard the impermanent as the border to an unconquerable emptiness or nothingness. The distance between the passed events and the images of them does not decrease. You feel your way and the patterns change.
Extract from a conversation between Kristina Bength and Fredrik Ehlin, translated by Kalle Mellberg, publiched in the cataloge for the third year exhibition The Loose Knowledge Movement at the Royal Art Academy in Stockholm.



Detail from Sliding side-scenes, inc and watercolor on paper, Kristina Bength, 2008