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Now you see the world through our eyes       (2024)


Transparent solar film and etched glass vinyl





Photos by Brian Kure






These eyes, looking at us as we move around Borgernes Hus, what do they want? Are they protecting us, or tracking us? Do they encourage us to look at others, to make contact with our fellow human beings, or do they alienate us, shoring up our increasingly fragile, paranoid sense of self?

In applying these simple, genderless graphics to the windows of the building, Kristian Blomstrøm Johansson has turned a public institution into an all-seeing creature that is at once unsettling and intriguing. 

The title of the work comes from a gravestone near the artist’s house and begs more questions: Who is speaking? Is this declaratory, insistent statement celebratory or vindictive? Positioned here, in the library, the ‘our’ could refer to citizens who use the building, the municipality that controls the building, or the books that inhabit the building.

Text by Jes Fernie


 Cecilie Skov   Mikkel Bundgaard Pedersen   Kristian Blomstrøm Johansson  Mia Carl    Sidsel Bonde Pernille Emilia Kjær Christian Bang Jensen  Video