The work Slightly in Denmark – the story of a fictional character, Joseph Slightly, who suffers from photo-mania from having been poisoned by photo chemicals – already develops the punchline in the oscillation between the photographs (some of them depicting Olsson’s grandfather) and the way they are described, and in the little twists and shifts happening beside the main narrative line. The pseudo antique, discovery-like character the work builds on, is in the context of this exhibition somehow duplicated by the fact that the passe-partouts themselves bear many real physical traces, being the first exhibited work of Olof from 1992, and thus also marking the beginning of his own photo-mania. 

In Market Realist Archive we see a basic level of art appearing. The need people have of inserting something creative, even if it just may mean choosing Arial or Times New Roman. But we also understand why some pictures are there, even if algorithmically speaking, they shouldn’t. In the quantity, we see Olof’s moods and waves that appear to break or unfold the existing lines. And how this in a way shakes the apparently rigid conceptual approach. It’s not the archives or Google images we see here, but some roots and essences of human creativity.

Office Work could be read almost entirely as an ode to boredom. But also to the times when boredom still existed. Art, in any case, needs and grows from boredom. We feel the pleasure, the elegance but also the importance of each gesture. Nonetheless as much as with the touring comedian, the roadside enterprise sign designer, and the photo-maniac, also the office worker is a statement towards ideas of productivity and profit. Not just concerning the symbolism of the A4 to A8 multiplication as a questionable result, but also the excellence of the execution of this task. The work is not only gestural and conceptual, but also physical; it has a lot of delicacy and elegance, which transcends the simplicity of the idea, and takes it further.