“Here are motifs from distant lands, as well as from around the corner in Värmland. Deserted houses in depopulated areas, but also harbors, bustling with life and movement. Scenes and snapshots with astonishing detail and presence. Here are a couple of images where adventurous people struggle to set up tents under hardship and hardship to protect themselves from the biting cold. Is it the foolhardy engineer André and his crew trying to survive on the polar ice? Or is it Lars again, on an excursion in Northern Norway? He travels not only in reality and in the realm of imagination, but also completely boundless in time. A yellowed photo album from a flea market can take him on a desert hike in the last century.”

Excerpt from Sune Nordgren's text for the exhibition catalogue.

Lars Lerin (born 1954) lives and works in Karlstad. He has had a long series of solo and group exhibitions, both in Sweden and internationally. His art is represented in several public collections, such as Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Malmö Konstmuseum and Värmlands Museum, Karlstad, to name a few.