Joakim Eneroth – författare

In Whispering Void, artist Joakim Eneroth explores the nature of the mind from a Western psychological perspective combined with contemporary neuroscience. It is a continued examination of the theme, which was investigated in his previous art project Short Stories of the Transparent Mind from an Eastern philosophical point of view. In Whispering Void, Eneroth reveals the deeper subconscious layers of experience, the dance of notions and perceptions in the fluctuating mind. The questions often revolve around how to distinguish the mental projections of the mind from reality itself. Joakim Eneroth, born 1969, is an internationally established artist whose work is represented in the collections of the Tate Modern in London, Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, MEP in Paris, and Moderna Museet in Stockholm, among others. Awareness and mind are the themes that unite Eneroths protean work. With each new series, the artist explores another aspect of consciousness and the boundaries where our inner and outer worlds meet.

This series of photographs touches on our subconscious identification with well-known brands and how they are presented to us. The artist Joakim Eneroth explores the transformation of dense products associated with consumerism, and investigates their ethereal and transparent nature in its temporary expression. It becomes an exploration of how the sublime and etheric aspect of reality is an underlying potential in all forms, as well as in the formless. When the boundaries of the material world are dissolved, we enter the landscape of neither subject nor object the transparent interrelationship between the relative and the absolute. This artwork exposes and expands our definitions and associations with products of everyday life.

Blinded by the Known is the third part of a trilogy where the photographer and artist Joakim Eneroth explores how the human mind creates psychological projections and fabricates a virtual dreamlike inner reality.  In this last part, Eneroth has explored the underlying subjective mental filter through which we constantly act. In these new photographic artworks, he has aimed to make this transparent layer of interpretation and positioning more visible and points out how it permeates every part of the human experience.  In some of the photographs in this series, he has allow the hypnotising illusion to slowly dismantle slowly dismantle, as we peel off the different layers of subjectivity. Here, he has used stencils to spray-paint objects onto the photographs. These photographic artworks create a paradox between a depicted reality and a constructed scenery, being simultaneously experienced. The spray-painted objects in a real photo landscape create an oscillation between a documented situation and a subjective fabricated narrative. These photo artworks invite us to gradually establish a new perspective, where the mind no longer can believe its own mental constructions nor its visual interpretations or imprints. And when we discern the faculty of believing appearances, it becomes possible to transcend the subjective filters altogether. We can then, on a deeper level, appreciate the reality that lies beyond the perception of the dualistic mind. The introduction text and the poems in the epilogue is written by the poet and author Bob Hansson.