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Smiley, 2009
Project for Hovefestivalen, Pvc, helium, 400 x 400 x
250 cm
This inflatable helium sculpture was made for
Hovefestivalen, an annual music festival that gathers
thousands of people in a big social event lasting four
days and nights. In this context I wanted to make
something simple that could appeal to a wide audience,
but in a subtle way contradict itself and say
something about the commodification of culture, the
transience of music, time and human emotions. The
Smiley is an universal icon with an ambiguous meaning.
It´s importunate happiness conceales its own
opposite. The sculpture was very popular, but guarded
poorly by the festival security team. Already the
first night it was released by vandals up into the
summer sky, and now suffers an unknown future as toxic
waste on some foreign shore.
- Bjørn Bjarre, 2009
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