Disappearance of the world, resemblance of the object-DARK FOSSIL

excerpt from the catalogue written by Josefine Wikström; On one of the two screens that make out the piece, a close up of a hand follows the contour of what looks like an ancient stone wall or the remainders of an old building. As the hand curves and bends with the shape of the material under it, we can almost feel the ribbed hard texture against our own hands whilst watching the video. Does our seeing at this moment become sensing?...” “ A fossil by it’s nature capture plants and animals that are sediment of thousands of years within them and so inhabit history in a very concrete sense. The tongue is an organ, and a muscle, connected to sensuality and the body as much as to speech and intellectual activities. But rather than keeping these things on a metaphysical abstract level, the work materialises them and bring them close to our bodies and senses...”