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Karl Dunér | Sophögen | The Heap

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20 February - 29 March 2025
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Our second major show with Karl Dunér marks the first phase of a project that will culminate in 2025 with two books, an exhibition, and a theater production. The first book will be published to coincide with this exhibition.
Didyme to Apollonios, brother and sun, greetings.
You should know that I do not see the sun because I cannot see you, for I have no other sun but you. I thank your brother Theonas.
 (Take care of) what I sent to your father … Theon, son of Athenaios, your friend …

 

 

This letter, originally sent in the 2nd century CE, was unearthed in 1896 from an ancient garbage heap, alongside over 500,000 other papyrus fragments. These remnants preserve the memory of the lost city of Oxyrhynchus—receipts, letters, police reports, plays, philosophical texts, and countless other writings created and discarded over nearly a millennium.

 

This exhibition takes this particular garbage heap as its point of departure. It marks the first phase of a project that will culminate in 2025 with two books, an exhibition, and a theater production. The first book will be published to coincide with the exhibition at Galleri Duerr.

 

In his previous exhibition, Paraboler (Parabolas), Karl Dunér drew inspiration from one of the heap’s many theatrical fragments—Aeschylus’ lost play The Myrmidons. In this new exhibition, Dunér expands his focus to embrace the garbage heap in its entirety. The project, titled Sophögen (The Heap), began in the winter of 2023 in collaboration with translators Jan Stolpe, Lars-Håkan Svensson, and Daniel Samuelsson.

 

 

SV.

Didyme till Apollonios, broder och sol, hälsningar.
Du ska veta att jag inte ser solen eftersom jag inte kan se dig, för jag har ingen annan sol än dig. Jag tackar din bror Theonas.
(Ta hand om) det som jag skickade till din far ... Theon, Athenaios son, din vän …


Brevet skickades på 100-talet evt och hittades 1896 i en antik sophög tillsammans med över 500.000 andra papyrusfragment. Den försvunna staden Oxyrhynchos minne finns samlat där—kvitton, brev, polisrapporter, pjäser, filosofiska texter och allt annat som under nästan 1000 år skrivits ner och sedan kastats bort. 

 

Utställningen har sophögen som utgångspunkt. Det är första delen av ett arbete som under 2025 resulterar i två böcker, utställning och teaterföreställning. Den första boken publiceras i samband med utställningen på Galleri Duerr. 

 

I Karl Dunérs förra utställning Paraboler utgick han från ett av Sophögens många pjäsfragment, Aischylos förlorade pjäs Myrmidonerna. I den nya utställningen tas ett grepp om själva sophögens helhet. Arbetet med Sophögen påbörjades vintern 2023 tillsammans med översättarna Jan Stolpe, Lars-Håkan Svensson och Daniel Samuelsson.

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