For more than four decades, Annika Eriksson has developed work attentive to the unstable arrangements through which figures inhabit space alongside one another. In “and order”, moving-image, collages, dioramas, and a sculptural environment dwell on the mutual implication of order and command. Humans, animals, and objects appear caught in systems of observation that are at once caring and controlling. Watching turns into surveillance, habits become compulsions, systems begin producing exceptions, and situations start developing a life of their own. What first appears as attentiveness slowly darkens into fixation, while the structures intended to organize everyday life threaten, at any moment, to become absurd. “and order” marks Eriksson’s return to Kunstverein München twenty-three years after her exhibition “Arbeitswelt” (2003).
“and order” is supported by the Swedish Embassy Berlin and realized with the generous support of IASPIS, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual and Applied Arts and H&D Digitaldruck.