sprickor och andra sprickor

Karl-Johan Stigmark's Sprickor och Andra Sprickor (Cracks and Other Cracks) further advances a body of work that seeks to define the im/material by performing minimal interventions and documenting the minutia of daily life. Within the pages of this artist's book (many of which have been left blank to underscore the materiality of the printed pages), Stigmark presents a collection of highly detailed photographs documenting the cracks and fissures in his bedroom ceiling, where the paint is beginning to peel away and the structure of the room is slowly changing, causing hairline fractures to appear.

The artist describes the book thus: "Sprickor och Andra Sprickor: A morning when the light filters in through my window. A meditation on all the cracks, flakes, overlappings, cavities, gaps, holes, burstings, fissures, crevices, rips, cuts, scratches, grooves, clefts, plays, leaks, chinks, fractures, ruptures, and rifts in my bedroom ceiling... impossible to sum up. They are too many. They are plainly 'cracks and other cracks.'"