Marcus Hansson: Celebration Parades

All works in this book were altered through additions and reductions between 2015 and 2023. From the publisher: "Looking at Marcus Hansson’s stuff – the way he puts together a kind of photo, for example – I get the impression that he’s working with how things feel, not how they look. It’s not just through the dead eye of a camera that he’s looking at the world. He creates boredom, destruction and failure, and in doing so succeeds in alienating himself from himself in order to be healed." – from Dan Wolgers' text The raw material for Marcus Hansson’s images in the book Celebration Parades is partly his own photographs or painted fragments and partly other people's images. Images that are from our common image culture. Commercial or private photographs found on the internet. Some images are printed again and used for paper sculptures that he has once again photographed to use in his images. In his computer he starts mixing them over and over again and builds new photographs. Small parts of fabric have been scanned and reused. For eight years, between 2015 and 2023, this cutting, painting, scanning and mixing has been going on to finally end up in this book called Celebration Parades.