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Paragoge With Matti Sumari at Skånes Konstförening, Malmö 2017.  With the works Lost Pigeons, cyanotypes on paper in walnut frames, from 2016 and Sanctuary, Inkjet print in hand built frame painted black, from 2017 An exhibition about two locations on the outskirts of Malmö. My part of the exhibition focused on a carrier pigeon club in Bulltofta, Malmö. One of the stories I picked up from the club was about a sunstorm disturbing thousands of pigeons during a competition 2005. Making them flying off in the wrong direction. This story is dovetailed with one that takes place in the 18th century about the blue Rodrigues pigeon on an island outside of Mauritius. French colonisers appear on the island and eat all of the pigeons since they are so easy to catch. The Rodrigues pigeon becomes extinct and very little is known about it since. In 1761 the French astronomer Alexandre Guy Pingré arrives to the island to observe the transit of Venus. He is known to have bad eye sight and weather conditions at the time does not make his observations easier. He fails to see the the transit and before he leaves the island also notes that none of the blue pigeons that were said to live on the island can be found anylonger.