59-20-18" N / 18-04-31" E
SIte specific installation in the National Library, Stockholm 2001.

The installation consisted of a series of photos taken from different levels of the library's area. Some photos were taken in the archive, deep down in the underground, in which the enormous collection of books and materials were kept. Some photos were taken from the main level and the beautiful park outside. And finally some of the photos consisted of details from the sky above the library, with clouds passing by. From the photos photogravures were made and printed on a big copper print paper and finally placed in an elderly show-case in the main entrance. All the objects in the photos had the same latitude and longitude: 59-20-18” N and18-04-31” E. From a topographical point of view they were synonymous as they addressed to the exactly same place. Also the visitor standing inside the library watching the pictures of the library became a part of this self reflecting self portrait of the library itself.

The second part of the installation concerned the catalogue register of old pictures, kept in the archive. For each picture there is a text in this register, describing the picture in question, stored some where deep down in the archive. As these texts, made with an intention of being neutral and descriptive, are written by persons, and not machines, some of the descriptions had almost poetic qualities. Ten of these texts were chosen and then transfered on ten white plaster plates, 24 x 30 cm. These plates were placed on different walls in the public halls of the library; refering to the pictures some where in the archive, never shown.