Private Language

2012 (ongoing)

I invited eleven children in the ages 3 – 5 to interpret my collection of sculptures. I met with each child
individually for an hour to discuss the collection: what they thought the sculptures looked like, if there
was a story, which one they liked the most, etc. I asked each one of them if they felt the collection was
missing something and if so could they draw the missing piece. I also asked them if the sculptures
were placed in the right order or if they wanted to rearrange them, which all except for one did.
The upcoming months I will interpret their drawings and make their missing pieces into new sculptures and paintings.

All parts of this process will be exhibited and published in a book in the near future.

Photos by Emilia Bergmark-Jiménez

(More images and text coming soon)