one of them is red
Explosion, Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2012.
During the summer of 2012, Moderna Museet, in collaboration with Arkitekturmuseet, realized *Bucky Dome* — a geodesic dome installed in the museum garden at Skeppsholmen. The dome became a site for performances, music, conversations, and gatherings throughout the summer.
At the same time, the exhibition Explosion was presented inside and outside Moderna Museet. Torbjörn Johansson was invited to perform in the Bucky Dome in connection with the exhibition. Explosion was produced by a curatorial team consisting of Magnus af Petersens, Matilda Olof-Ors, and Catrin Lundqvist, and was based on the idea that color, as an expressive medium, has been used across cultures as a means to explore sensory states, bodily movement, and collective experience.
Inviting Johansson to perform as part of Explosion was a natural choice. Over time, through exhibitions and public commissions, he has demonstrated a sustained and genuine interest in how color and movement affect perception and the senses. His artistic practice encompasses installations and performances where color functions simultaneously as material, sensory substance, and spatial force.
Johansson’s engagement with both historical and contemporary references, as well as with craft and theory, is central to his work. It is therefore not surprising that his experiences in the Bucky Dome led to a desire to further investigate how color operates within the context of the Holi festival in India. His artistic research consistently seeks to deepen our understanding of color’s dynamic relationship to human experience — physically, sensorially, and socially.