Erik Johansson, Full Moon Service, 2017 – © Erik Johansson
It is only natural that a follower of surrealism like Erik Johansson exhibits his photos in the city where this movement was born a century ago. In Paris, in the Marais, at the Swedish Institute, this creator of large format images tells us about a strange and imaginary country, his own, which resembles his native land, where the light of the North and nature, but also the elves and trolls in the undergrowth, are omnipresent.
Erik Johansson, Ideas like at night, 2021 – © Erik Johansson
The world of Erik Johansson, who was born in 1985, oscillates between shadow and light, between truth and visions, between the real and the absurd. His dreamlike scenes free up the field of possibilities and invite the viewer to question existential questions such as the climate emergency beyond borders.
Erik Johansson, Under the Corner, 2017 – © Erik Johansson
For Erik Johansson “creating an image means creating a place. A place which, at first glance, seems familiar but which nevertheless has a particularity provoking a reaction in those who look at it.” In the Surrealist Manifesto in 1924, André Breton defined surrealism as a “pure psychic automatism”, allowing one to express the reality of one's thoughts, without censorship, whether through writing, drawing or any other way. For example, through photography.
Until April 24, 2022, free entry without reservation.
Ideas come at night
Swedish Institute
11, rue Payenne, 75003 Paris
Wednesday to Sunday from 12:00 p.m. to 18:00 p.m.
Tel: +01 44 78 80 20 XNUMX
Text: Katia Barillot
09.04.22
