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Delta
In collaboration with Helena Wikström
"Spare Time"
Bildmuseet, Umeå
June 6 - September 4, 2011
"Spare Time: Utopias on the Verge of Commonness"
National Gallery, Prague
September 6 - November 13, 2011
"Survival Kit"
Latvian Centre of Contemporary Art, Riga
September 8 - 18, 2011
In Delta, Gerd Aurell and Helena Wikström investigate the outdoor activities in the Ume River Delta.
They meet bird watchers, ice fishers, school children and cross country skiers - people who in their
spare time take part in outdoor activities in the Ume Delta area. They also discover a landscape
in rapid change, brought on both by natural processes and by man's efforts to change nature.
The interviews and photographs of Delta are collected in two books (Delta Winter and Delta Spring)
that are presented in a full-size bird-hide in the exhibition space.