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The work approaches the feeling of searching in a particular sense: searching for something that is already there – and does not need to be found. The point of departure is the well-known Rosenhan experiment, in which eight sane individuals, ‘pseudo-patients’, feigned symptoms to be admitted to psychiatric institutions. As recently shown, the experiment itself was dogged by inconsistencies and anomalies – the pseudo-patients likely never existed in the first place. Through repetition and superimposition, the work explores the liminal space between thinking and perceiving, re-activating the gaps and contradictions that return to haunt a scientific material.

Dag Kewenter is a visual artist, working primarily with installation and film. In 2022, he graduated from the Masters program at Malmö Art Academy with the exhibition Post Sunrise / Post Oracle, for which he received the Edstrandska Grant.