What happens in translations between cultures, between languages, between a viewer and an artwork? In “The Spiral and the Square. Exercises in Translatability,” the works are varied exercises in translatability: Rivane Neuenschwander’s phantom draughtsman translates the visitor’s description of their first love into a portrait on paper. Cildo Meireles’ simple paper bags are translated into a series of volume units. Laura Lima’s living sculpture lends an image to the process of translation as a physical and demanding struggle. Cao Guimarães’ full-length film Ex Isto challenges how history is written by transferring European historical events to the Amazon rainforest. - See more at: http://moussemagazine.it/the-spiral-and-the-square-at-bonnier-konsthall-stockholm/#sthash.xCrhXeYz.dpuf