Annette Folkedotter
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Folkbladet/Ostgoten 1996 Lasse Jonsson
Catastrophe's table at the County Museum's Still Life with a so called vanitas motif in other words with corruption symbolism.Was quite normal in Dutch art in the 16th
century. The motif was skulls, hour glasses, globes, musical instruments etc. Annettes installation "French Breakfast" now being shown in the Dahlgren's gallery in the Linkoping Museum can be regarded as a modern version of this type of still life, but it has been created with hundreds of real objects packed onto a long table. It begins fairly conventionally at one end of the table with bowls, glasses, vases, pots, and other articles which appear quite normal. There is also an ornamental duck and a woman's head made of plaster lying on a cushion. But if one looks in a bowl one sees fruit that appears to be rotten and coated with some disgusting film. A set of coffee cups however continues to give an aura of normality but then the table becomes increasingly ghostly, macabre, disgusting, and surrealistic. It also gives a sacred impression of the last supper and holy communion. Catastrophe Object becomes even more chaotic,looking like the after effects of a disaster. Objects are overturned, food is mouldy or rotting or coated with slime, and there are rats, insects, and birds some of them twitching with life. At the same time as the table is giving an impression of increasing decay and destruction, there is also the hint of new life beginning. AJ's table can be seen as a disturbing commentary on the French nuclear testing programme in the spring. It was around that time that her work was first displayed. However, her work can also be interpreted differently, and we can see other implications, associations, and symbols. It is an impressive piece of work that makes a unique and strong impression on the observer, bright, glimmering, colourful, but at the same time strangely disturbing. French Breakfast is from 1996.



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