The book offers a thorough retrospective view of Anja Franke's work during the last 15 years. Mikkel Bogh, director of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, contributes with an essay on the experience of mental and physical spaces in Franke's installations and her concern with borders, limitations, divisions and relations. Sanne Kofod Olsen, curator, writer and director of the Funen Academy of Fine Arts in Odense, looks into recurrent aspects or principles in Franke's practice such as man, woman, apple, house and Franke's play with gender roles. The artist introduces each work with a description and personal comments.

The Expert / Afternoon in the Uganda Forest is an artist book based on two installations with the same titles. Through photographs, drawings and texts the work looks at some of the imaginations about and projections of Africa in Denmark, in the context of Danish development aid.

Laura Horelli works with montage to confront the reality of ‘official’ images and messages from society, politics, the media or economics with those from her own perspective. She manages, in the meeting of these two ‘realities’, to open up zones of the imaginary that permeate and determine daily human experience in many ways. Horelli is a structural thinker who applies her deliberate, subjective interest to places where questions of power that are negotiated on various levels come into play.

Der amerikanische Science-Fiction-Autor und Kulturkritiker Mark von Schlegell (*1967 in New York) lebt und arbeitet in Köln.