For CCS Paris – Critical Text
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In the Kabbalah, the pure and infinite divinity is defined. In Soph, it is symbolized by the letter Aleph, the point that contains the entire universe within itself. He who looks inside Aleph sees the entire universe, everything that exists.
In the short story "Aleph," José Luis Borges describes the feeling one experiences when contemplating the cosmos of the Kabbalists, the sensation of seeing everything simultaneously and from all angles. Aleph was a small, sunflower-colored sphere, with an almost unbearable radiance, floating motionless in the air above the cellar stairs of a ruined house in Buenos Aires.
I didn't know if Sivert Lindblom reads the Kabbalah or if he delved into the mysticism of numbers among alchemists, but the space he constructs reminds me of Borges's short story.
One expects, after a while, to see an Aleph appear in a corner, an incandescent point containing all the tensions, all the numerical relationships, and all the secret connections presented in this space. One has the impression of entering an occult observatory, with mysterious and impenetrable devices where another order of things is measured.
Solemn monoliths with meticulously calculated proportions create a magnetic field composed of numerical and geometric forms that spread throughout the space. One of the forms is suddenly materialized on the wall, in lead, and its surface area is precisely indicated in square millimeters. Is it this composition that activates the invisible locks? Sivert Lindblom has signed the space with his self-portrait, a small statue of a naked man, concentrated and intensely reflective. Like a monk in a Trappist cell, the ascetic structuring is rigorously executed in the space and vibrates with the same intellectual approach. Lindblom introduces cosmic relationships into his space and creates, using precise means, the sensation of a monumental universe, as if the walls were opening towards infinity. It is pure magic, of a sublime beauty that borders on the sacred.
Torsten Ekbom Photo: Magnus Lindblom
