2024
brass, 600 x 32 x 6 cm
Noora Schroderus examines power and gender, questions authorities and looks upon rules with reservation. Such seeds of doubt were sown in her already in primary school, when the pupils were told with absurd severity not to eat crispbread for dessert; her work School Memory is based on that injunction. Although such an exhortation may seem harmless to an adult, it nevertheless illustrates the limited agency children have to resist the seemingly arbitrary rules imposed by adults. Today, similar feelings of frustration are aroused by bureaucracy, social media and empty talk.