SUIT-CASE is a book work containing a series of photographic allegories. But SUIT-CASE is also a spatial experience in the form of a number of selected photographs in illuminated montres shown at four museums in Denmark in 1993 Ð94: The New Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, the Museum of Photography, Odense, the Horsens Art Museum and the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Aalborg.

The SUIT-CASE book consists of 30 cases. A suitcase is not only something you take along on a trip, suit also means fitting, appropriate, while case is a matter of interest or concern and cases en suite are cases one after another. The title refers to the way the photographs are put together in the book – 30 different cases that appear as states of things presented in succession – but also to the individual cases and their placing on the open page, where the space between also has an important function in relation to the total composition.

The pictures consist of one or more persons staged in front of a magnified projection of familiar holiday motifs. A recurring feature is that the bodies are used as gesture in the experience of a state. On cursory inspection the pictures resemble those of the modern media culture, but their seriality and the individual cases open up for other readings. The staged photographs and the slides appropriated from everyday life bring about a transposition of reality and place SUIT-CASE in the interspace between a real and a staged reality leaving the viewer to decide which is the most real.