From Björn Springfeldts opening speech at the Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, 2009:

“I could never have imagined that one day I would stand here giving the opening speech for a major exhibition of Adam Saks, but chance can intervene in one’s life in such a wonderful way.

We met almost exactly ten years ago, when I was working at the Swedish Embassy in Berlin and one day there was a knock at the door. Outside stood a young man with a briefcase under his arm. He introduced himself and explained that he was a Danish artist, recently graduated from the art academy in Berlin, where he had gone to study with Bernd Koberling as his professor.
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When Adam Saks showed me his portfolio, I understood that here was an artist to keep an eye on—and I have done so ever since. Countless studio visits and conversations, many unforgettable entrecôte dinners at the Paris Bar in Berlin, and several exhibitions that we have worked on together. And all the while, Adam’s artistic practice has deepened, flourished, and continually surprised me.
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Images are born from images; one does not become an artist in front of a beautiful sunset, but in front of an image of a beautiful sunset. At the same time, a work of art—no matter how abstract it may appear—stems from a human life and is the consequence of that person’s interests and experiences. In that sense, all images are fragments of a much larger story, which is not only about the artist, but about humanity, about us.

But the image differs from literature in that it has no beginning and no end, and no narrative logic of everyday storytelling. The truly interesting image instead resembles poetry, which has the ability to condense and continuously raise questions, while we ourselves must grope for the answers.
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It is an immense narrative that Adam Saks presents to us, and it is an adventure to enter into his images.”