JIM BERGGREN

Exile is a plight that overthrows everything. Weather the cause lies within
or comes from the outside, it forces you to abandon the well known and start
anew.
In both cases it has a duality of threat and possibility. Over time it will
change in shape and content and you will change with it.
In many senses exile is a lonesome way of living. There is bound to be as
many stories of it as there are refugees.

We all ponder over the matters of our fundamental conditions.
Artists do it in their work. Materials and techniques are of no great
significance as such. Drawings, graphic art, animations, paintings
photography etc. are all useful tools to assist our ability and desire to
ask questions we cannot answer.

The animation Memento Mori is about many things, also about exile.
But it is not made as an artistic comment. It lingers on it´s subjects in an
intuitive way as do the kind of every day phenomena that can be shown but
not easily described.

My art work is constantly connected to the societal. I want to contribute to a reasonable society where politics are not reduced to remove obstacles to the financial market.

Art is not a uniform notion. Parts of it might well possess a refugee-like
status in today´s society while other parts are chosen to represent the
power elite when called for. The reasonable society cannot afford to hold neither art nor people in refugee-camps or force them to go into exile.