Mats Andrén - the-walk.se
“I have never been very good at leading a normal life”
The-walk is an attempt to find a lifestyle. A life I want to live that seems meaningful, exciting and challenging, anything but predictable and secure.
This exhibition is the result of my first careful venture into my imagined new life.
I spent almost 2 months walking through the Swedish countryside trying to find out if my ideas about a nomadic, minimalistic life were feasible or just crazy.
Walking from Stockholm to Åre and then back by way of Karlstad, covering 1790km, I discovered than that walking is an art, and that I very much wanted to be one of its students.
Meeting people, experiencing the countryside as so much more than just a blur outside a window and living life in the moment was more than I had dared to imagine. All of this even though I had walked through one of the wettest and coldest summers for more than 100 years.
This walk has been a wonderful test for me and is hopefully just the beginning of a great new adventure that will see me walking all the way to Sydney, Australia, starting in may of 2013.
Enjoy the pictures and follow the continuing saga at
Vernissage: söndag 7 okt kl 12-16
Öppettider: tor-fre 17-19 lör-sön 12-16
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