Karl Larsson (SE 1977) is an artist, poet and editor. These diverse positions have coalesced in an artistic practice that can be described as both editorial and literary, but that differs from writing in a conventional sense in its focus on spatial experience, embodiment and activism.
P∞L (CONSENSUS), 2013 at Castillo/Corrales, Paris.
Show and tell is not that much of an easy sport. Everyone knows that. At times it feels like a good exercise—using objects for your mind to play—other times it ends up in a painful stutter—the arrogant stubbornness of the material leaving one unable to speak. The eyeball may go too fast, or too slow for the tongue; the brain may not be able to fill in the gaps that the slick surfaces try to hide; things may go wrong, and reveal themselves as decoys. Sometimes it’s simply a good match—like a translation that makes so much sense, that one even forgets the text that came before. Often objects are overlooked as much as they are overwritten. One would dream that they stand up and speak by themselves, to reveal what they are—a wish or a remembrance, a prop or a metaphor.