The series Neighbours are black and white photographs coloured by hand with gouache, tempera, crayons and charcoil, originally made for the exhibition Rooms in-between Rooms at Moderna Museet, Stockholm 1992. After traveling round the districts of Småland and Skåne and devoting myself to taking photographs of houses in the little towns I felt as though I had discovered a new world, in spite of the fact that this was the world of my childhood. Colouring the photographs was a process of reconstruction, or rather post-construction, where I recreated details in an associative manner based on memories and experience of the small town architecture. Through both my choice of objects and method I tried to emphasized the ongoing construction of the house itself, re-buildings and additions, like adjunctions, where often anachronistic details were added to the original architecture. There was a sense of not belonging emerging from the houses, a sometimes desperate need for roots and history, a will to turn aside from the modern project.

Exhibitions of Neighbours:

Buildings and Stories, Passagen, The Art museum of Linköping 2001 (catalogue available)

Magnus Bärtås, The Art Museum of Jönköping 2001 (catalogue available)

Magnus Bärtås, works 1992-2000 Gävle Konstcentrum, Gävle 2000 (catalogue available)

Belongingness, Smålands Konstarkiv, Värnamo (text by Mats Trondman) 1998

Belongingness, Urshults Folkets Hus, (text by Mats Trondman) 1998

Mind of a Fool, contemporary art from the collection of Norrköpings Konstmuseum 1997

Prospect, Örebro Konsthall, Västerås Konstmuseum (curated by Jan-Erik Lundström) 1994

Fotodiffussione' 94 Palazzo della Promotrice, Torino

Prospect, Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm (curated by Jan-Erik Lundström) 1993

Rooms in-Between Rooms, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (curated by Sören Engblom) 1992 (catalogue available)

The works are represented in the collections of Moderna Museet, Norrköpings
Konstmuseum, Smålands Konstarkiv, National Arts Council and private collections.

[Moderna Museets samling](https://sis.modernamuseet.se/objects/41921/granne-i?ctx=b6c06dadd54e0834bb8c282ae0bb9f5e196590c2&idx=0]