Soli Deo Gloria
Title: Soli Deo Gloria
Material: HD video, 15 x 1.8 meter, color, silent, 86 minCurator: Isak Nilson
Communications Manager and Editor SSE Art Initiative: Robert Stasinski
Location: Stockholm School of Economics, 2017
With Oscar Mangione
The site-specific video installation Soli Deo Gloria is a montage of precisely selected, layered fragments of academic texts, ancient coins, historical bills, film sequences, and references to economic events covering a time span of almost 4000 years. This poetic work forms a weave of new combinations and associations between different parts of the scientific memory of the library at the Stockholm School of Economics. What unfolds is an open-ended narrative about money as carriers of memories of financial crisis, religious symbolism, colonialism, and political propaganda. An epos, which portrays an economy as a circular movement between construction and destruction, hope and misery, benevolence and betrayal, glory and guilt. In total, Soli Deo Gloria constitutes an aesthetic cathedral of memory through which the power of images gives complementary access to the past. Combined with the scientific sources of information of the library, it gives researchers, students, and the public further tools to see, feel, and think about the present and the future anew.
The project was made possible by donations from the Josefsson Foundation, Ragnar Söderberg Foundation, and Brunswick Real Estate.
Photo: Mikael Olsson
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