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Thoughts on agency - by Henrik Karlsson - Escaping Flatland

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Gustav Klimt, Beech Grove I, 1902

Gustav Klimt, Beech Grove I, 1902 The art gallery where I work is an old warehouse from 1875. We have eight large exhibition halls. For the last four weeks, I’ve been busy in five of those rooms, building walls, and painting, and putting up new exhibitions. When juggling transports and nervous artists, I find it hard to concentrate at the level I need to write properly. Carrying a vase, I overhear the artists talk about a residency in a monastery in southern Italy, where the personnel would cook for them so they could lose themselves in their art, and I feel a tinge of envy and longing.…

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