Installation, 2012. Variable dimensions.
Tree, rope, block and tackle.
Fear of Failure was first created for the exhibition with the same title at Tromsø Fine Arts Society, Norway Nov - Dec 2012. A second version of the installation was made for a solo show at Galleri Rostrum, Malmö January - February 2013. A third version was on display at a solo show at Norske Grafikere, Oslo February - March 2014. A fourth version was shown at the exhibition Avtrykk. Tresnitt fra fem århundrer (Impressions. Five centuries of woodcuts) at the National Gallery, Oslo Nov 2015 - Jan 2016.
Special thanks to Ane Elene Johansen.
(...) Near the entrance hangs the ultimate symbol of human vulnerability in this eternally grinding ”welfare state machine”: a naked tree, strung up upside down and anchored to the floor with a rope.
"Fear of failure" is an image of how the forces of power obsessively attempt to "straighten up" everything defiant and fragile. It almost smells like revolution.
Excerpt from a review of Mitt i Sverige / In the middle of Sweden at Galleri Rostrum, Malmö, by Martin Hägg. Published in Swedish daily newspaper Kvällsposten 17.01.2013.
Full version of the review is available as pdf-download at the bottom of this page (in Swedish)
Review by Martin Hägg, Kvällsposten 17.01.2013 (in Swedish)