The Tumble-dryer
A man steps into a dryer. The door is closed and the machine starts running. After a while the man comes out, with a reddish tan on his back.

I had just moved into a new house when I recorded the Tumble-dryer. It was shot in the common laundry room in the basement. It had a big enough tumble-dryer. I covered the windows to control the light and to avoid suspicious gazes from any new neighbours. I also locked the door from the inside. I had not imagined that these procedures would provoke an irresistible curiosity among the other tenants in the house. At some point during recording a neighbour violently breaks open the lock, stumbles in, freezes and asks: "What the hell is going on here?" All I managed to come up with, as an answer, was that I actually had booked the laundry room.

Björn Perborg
Björn Perborg works with video, animation, sculpture and installation. He holds a MFA in Fine Art from Valand School of Fine Arts, Gothenburg. Recent shows include: Art is not mute, Ersta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden, Five films by Björn Perborg, Spectra, Länsmuseet Västernorrland, Härnösand, Sweden, Rivjärn, JR Konsthallen, Linköping, Sweden, The Collectors, Galleri Box, Gothenburg, Sweden, 20 år! Bonniers konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden, DNA, Doga, Oslo, Norway. Luckily, Björn is small enough to fit inside a tumble-dryer.