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No answers but lots of questions
JonnsonAguirre is a duo based in Orebro, Sweden and Bonn/Colonge, Germany. They have collaborated in various
projects over the years, Giovanna Aguirre and Lars Jonnson have created several groups of works: Watersongs,
UMCS (Undeveloped Mobile Communication Survivors), Grasshopper, and recently ART-Oprenum Systems (ART:OS).
Each designed as an open system in which small groups of works, series and individual pieces has a different weight
within the choice of materials and the layers of thoughts which in the end produces its own dynamic. Other
approaches may initiate - and set off, create more ideas, like the grasshoppers which is more a mental state then a
project that rubs off into different spin-off ’s like the later environmental works, Dissolving self, Short stories, Where
are we going and Best Before-Open Studio to mention a few.
JonnsonAguirre’s rich facets of forms, materials and contents proves to be both playful and cryptic within the reations
on the everyday life which shapes so much of the human perception and actions in the tension especially between
nature and technology. Another equally central reason for both Aguirre and Jonnson is ’energy’ as a condition for
life. Energy manifests itself essentially in the processes of communication. Unilaterally reduced in the Western world
to it’s technological components that has bosted the industrial explosion of equipment for communication and
blowned away our sense for reality long ago.
With wit and humor Jonnson and Aguirre move co-products and incalculable consequences into consciousness and
evakes therebye questions about the limits of human life in their work, no answers but lots of questions. Materials
are chosen in close connection with the sustained content of the process. Usually they set up a new order, interaction
between things which irritates us in the usual way of seeing and disturbs our usual way of logical thinking.
They take use of traditional techniques as well as media, combinding photo (Jonnson) and sculpture (Aguirre) with
painting, live printing, screen, sounds and video which are united into different bodies of work. Critical contents are
set into perfection through combinations which gives a bold dynamic. A co-operation based on principles of dialogue;
-in the end it doesn’t matter who has done what, ”the work itself is so much bigger than our selves, and this is the
magic that keeps us going”.
Dr. Susannah Cremer-Bermbach