“Forty Viewpoints in Seven Instances on the Reconstruction of Two Environments by Björn Lövin” brings together photographs whose origins and status are in constant negotiation. The project is based on archival photographs from Björn Lövin’s exhibitions in the 1970s and 80s, images from a digital reconstruction of the same installations, and documentary photographs from a physical reconstruction process at Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 2022.

Across the pages, the book moves between archive, digital model and physical reconstruction. Visual documentation from different times and places meets within the sequence, tracing how an artwork can shift between record, reconstruction and renewed presence.

The project reflects on the photographic image itself. As photographs are transferred between contexts, their material and indexical qualities are stretched and reinterpreted. The image moves between different materialities and spaces, both mental and mechanical, allowing environments that are otherwise inaccessible to be reconstructed and imagined.

Björn Lövin (1937–2009) created a multifaceted body of work spanning installations, paintings, sculptures, texts and video. Through his environments, presented at institutions such as Moderna Museet and Kulturhuset in Stockholm and Centre Pompidou in Paris, he became one of Sweden’s earliest installation artists.

Awarded “Swedish Book Art Award” 2024.