Aubrey Reeves
Dagbok
October 16–November 14, 2009

Aubrey Reeves’ Dagbok (The Diary) was inspired by (and based on) the real-life experiences of Petter Moen, a Norwegian newspaper journalist and patriot who recorded his experiences during eight months of captivity in a Nazi prison. Without access to pen or paper, Moen painstakingly recorded his observations on life, war, love and his troubled faith by pricking pinhole letters onto coarse lavatory paper (Moen only had use of a single tack removed from the black-out curtain over his cell window). To interpret and convey Moen’s painful story, Reeves recreated the prisoner’s meticulous texts (excerpted from his diary, as translated into English) with pin-hole text onto two 45” x 72” translucent paper screens, which, when installed in the gallery and lit with Reeve’s projected, black and white video imagery (alluding to both Moen’s solitary confinement and his internal struggles) makes visible Moen’s poignant, secret diary.