Borås Art Museum presents NO PROSPECT OF AN END, one of the largest retrospective solo exhibitions of internationally active artist Christian Andersson.

Over more than twenty years Andersson has devoted himself to exploring the states between time and space, physics and metaphysics, fact and fiction in his oeuvre. These borderlands are made manifest in this exhibition, and the artist imagines the museum as a stage, where he is directing a range of artefacts and objects posing questions about how the world, both inside as well as outside the museum, actually functions, and about what is real and what is illusory.

The existential core of the exhibition explores both the external material values which can be attributed to the objects as well as the intrinsic intangible coding they possess, like status, visions and dreams. In this way Andersson lets his works mirror human processes, and the experience often makes us wonder what is happening – can we rely on what our senses are telling us and is reality really what it seems to be?

By setting the artefacts free from their former traditional roles they can be offered a new voice, filled with associative, alternative content and attitudes to our present, history and future. The works, with their ever-latent metaphysical perspective, leave room for mystery and dreamlike, surrealistic dimensions – where unexpected contours are formed and new questions can be formulated.

This exhibition is a collaboration between Borås Konstmuseum and Hallands Konstmuseum in Halmstad. Its title, NO PROSPECT OF AN END, is taken from the geologist James Hutton’s (1726-97) paper Theory of the Earth, presented in 1785, where he describes the fundamental processes for, among other things, the formation and transformation of the earth’s crust and rocks. The poetic and chronologically open-ended formulation: “No vestige of a beginning – No prospect of an end” has been used to shape the two parts and provide the title for the respective museums’ exhibitions, as well as fittingly reflect Andersson’s interest in time and space perspectives.