Cosmological Arrows - Bonniers Konsthall

The title of the book and eponymous exhibition at Bonniers Konsthall, Cosmological Arrows, is loosely borrowed from the book A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking. When we locate a thought in outer space, our given concepts of time and space are overturned. This exhibition and publication wishes to be a springboard for artistic ideas and visions that challenge our usual way of seeing the world, perhaps also suggesting new approaches on how to understand it.

These thoughts permeate the artworks and texts presented in Cosmological Arrows where space and the science fiction genre are an imaginary laboratory that becomes the point of departure for discussions regarding the ethical, moral and existential dilemmas of our times.

The book contains texts by Caroline Elgh Klingborg, Jerry Määttä, Mahan Moalemi, and Cecilia Åsberg, as well as short stories by Aleksandr Bogdanov, Ted Chiang, Karin Tidbeck and Alice B. Sheldon/James Tiptree Jr. and artworks by Agnieszka Brzezanska, Allora & Calzadilla, Anna Hoetjes, Arseny Zhilyaev & Asya Volodina, Brittany Nelson, Caroline Mesquita, Debora Elgeholm, Johannes Heldén, Jone Kvie, Larissa Sansour, Lawrence Lek, Lea Porsager, and Lee Bul.

Editors: Caroline Elgh Klingborg and Jerry Määttä
Writers: Magnus af Petersens, Caroline Elgh Klingborg, Jerry Määttä, Cecilia Åsberg, Mahan Moalemi
Language: English / Swedish
Graphic design: Sandra Praun, Oscar Guermouche
Rotolito Lombarda s.p.A. / Nava Press Milan
Art and Theory and Bonniers Konsthall, 2019
Product image: Emil Fagander
ISBN: 9789188031822

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