”The Great Memory – the title is related to the Irish poet William Butler Yeats and his idea of a shared visual memory, a kind of archive where experiences are stored as images. A space where times meet, and where the past can still speak to us.
It can also be seen as an image of how we relate to history. Not as something linear, but as something that is constantly reshaped. Where the private and the collective flow together. It is in this field of tension that The Great Memory takes shape.
The installation consists of cut-out details from an extensive collection of embroideries, purchased at flea markets. They span almost a century. Each stitch bears traces of its time, and together they form a silent archive of experiences. The motifs move between folk beliefs, symbolism and idealized images of rural life. They are somewhere between craft, mass production and art. By cutting out, moving and assembling the fragments in the room, Magnus creates new connections. It is not just a preservation, but an activation. A collective memory takes shape, where old images take on new meanings.
The exhibition also becomes a reflection on how we create meaning from the past – as something moving, something alive.”

Speach of curator Lejla Porovic

Essayistic Narratives between Fact and Fiction

SixtyEight is excited to be involved in curating an exhibition at Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa, in Kyoto, Japan, as part of Kyotographe KG+ photo festival. The project is founded in a long-term interest in the film-essay and the history of the exchange of influence in this medium between Europe and Japan, as well as in essayistic narrative techniques mire generally.

The exhibition will show photo and video works by Chen Chuanduan, Katharina Duve, Tina Enghoff, Fabian Hammerl, Julia Mejnertsen, Carsten Rabe, and Jakob Sinn, as well a mini-library of photo books featuring among others Yuki Jungesblut, Kevin Malcolm, Chris Marker, Inuuteq Storch, Simon Brugner and Jan Søndergaard.

An archive of video and film works shown in SixtyEight’s previous exhibitions on the same theme will also be on show, including works by Magnus Bärtås, Thorbjørn Bechmann, Umi Ishihara, Chip Lord, and Jorge Suárez Quiñones Rivas.

Curated by Staffan Boije af Gennäs, Fabian Hammerl and Christopher Sand-Iversen

On show: 18 April - 17 May 2026, 12:00-17:30

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