2024
For whom does art have meaning and why? Art is a unique tool for exploring the question of who we are and thereby also what a good life can be.
In this book, Kjetil Røed investigates eleven different virtues – attentiveness, judgement, contemplation, curiosity, awareness, hope, collaboration, double vision, craft, love, and solidarity – through works of art with the ambition of exercising values by using art as a platform. The result is a series of “virtuous works”, an endeavour to show what it is like to work with values and how the question of how we are to inhabit ideas about art can also be a process of understanding ourselves – and finding a clearer connection, direction, and wholeness in our own lives.
Kjetil Røed’s book is amusing, ingenious and relentlessly fascinating. His insane montage technique renders the text completely unpredictable.
… a remarkable work of reflective art about art as well as life.
Art can help you in the never-ending task of understanding yourself. That is the optimistic message of Kjetil Røed’s insightful and beautiful book.
Kjetil Røed
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