Children of the children of the revolution

About this book

What are the personal consequences of utopia? Is it possible to create a temporary community without it leading to isolation? The spring and summer exhibition at Färgfabriken takes it's point of departure in the past to talk about contemporary times. The exhibition takes place exactly 50 years after the now symbolic spring of 1968, and it reflects both historical events and the time we live in now. The exhibition brings together artists from a generation who share a common experience. They are all, in different ways, children of idealists, grown up in "alternative" left-wing environments under the so-called green wave in the 1970s and early 1980s. They are children of a generation who wanted to create a different way of life. These artists learned early in life to decode the alternative norm, and through art it became possible for them to express it's complexity. Exhibition: Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden (14.04. - 19.08.2018).