Aporia

Maria Jonsson

In Aporia we find ourselves within a liminal space. A space where the imagined contains traces of the real, and the documentary is reminiscent of fiction. The origin of the word "aporia" is in ancient Greek meaning literally "without passage". This particular passage (or this journey) can be likened to a quest of finding a way out; to navigate in the dark with no sense of direction. At the same time there seems to be a search for something else, like a meaning or the 'core'. Throughout this journey we move between states of wakefulness and of dreaming. The exposition consists of photographs, moving images, notes from dream journalling, drawings, encyclopedic facts, and also a little fiction. Simultaneous to this journey through time and space and changing of states, an index of cross references is created. This index becomes an auto-biographical lexicon of sorts. The artistic research aims to create a new narrative, emerging from a dissolving reality. An attempt to dissolve the physical world and to enter this new space. Is this new reality less authentic than the actual reality, or could it be even closer to the truth?

Jag dricker vatten ur en vit temugg.

Muggen ser lite smutsig ut på insidan.

Så jag diskar den i badrummet.

Vattnet som rinner ned i handfatet blir rött.

Rödgrusigt och grumligt.

När jag häller ut smutsvattnet och sköljer ur muggen kommer det bara mer hela tiden.

Jag diskar och diskar.

Grumligheten lägger sig på vattnets yta och stelnar, det bildas hårdnader på insidan av muggen som måste skrapas bort.

Gruskornen fastnar nu på mig, jag har spillt på vaden och hälen.

Kornen har svullnat upp och ser ut som lilaaktiga stenar. De går inte att få bort.

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