Memory in The Making

Mikael Lundberg’s art is found on the border between art, technology and science. In his Traces of an Ongoing Memory installation from 2004 he let salt crystallize from water in an open tank. The result was both visually astonishing and conceptually interesting.

I am very fond of this kind of low key conceptual art. The questions under examination might not be the biggest issues, or the boldest statements, but they are carefully and thoroughly examined – often in a very time consuming way.

This beautiful picture is from Lundberg’s Mirage series. These kinds of phenomena are actually very rare in the cold Scandinavian climate. To catch them on camera in this way, the artist must surely have spent unbelievable amounts of time waiting for the right conditions to occur.