At Lars Embäck's exhibition, we are greeted by a room within a room with common household objects combined and rearranged into a strange dreamlike scene and around them a flow of drawings and sketches in color. In several of the pictures there are references to Hilma af Klint, Embäck questions when "hearing voices" becomes an act of artistic spirituality versus when it is labeled suffering and madness. As often in Embäck's work, there are clues to his biography. But more important is that images and objects are woven together into a giant "sketchbook", with sketches on sketches, which asks the question of how ordinary an "ordinary life" is.

The installation "Home and Family (An Ordinary Life)" has been acquired by Moderna Museet, Sweden 2024.