WE SWIM IN ONE WATER III / beach
solo show at Köttinspektionen, Uppsala, 2020
The show “We Swim in One Water” addresses the intimate connections between organisms, the fragility of ecosystems, and uncertainty for the future. It investigates how everything is intertwined, and how we are always emerging as a part of something greater. What does it mean to live together in a constant exchange of energy and physical matter with human and non-human Others?
”We Swim in One Water” is moved on one hand by the beauty and sublimity of the world and, on the other, a constant anxiety for what awaits us with climate change and mass extinction. The categories and boundaries familiar to us are reshuffled in a rapidly changing world – romantic notions of nature die out as naïve, while something new, exciting, perhaps even dangerous, comes in their stead. The exhibition’s narrative unfolds on a symbolic beach - a liminal place where elemental water meets a piece of land. The ocean connects everything on geographical, biological, and spiritual levels.
Entities drifting from unknown, faraway places find new residence here. The inhabitants of the beach - hybrid sculptures, composed from found objects scattered on the sand - are a fading remembrance of extinct species, or imagined newcomers, the future cyborg-dinosaurs. One part of this hybrid rep-resents the natural, bodily, sexual, animalistic, and the visceral. Another part represents an Anthropocene outgrowth on the organic body. Either co-living or competition - this hybridity touches upon the notions of the transient and permanent, dead and alive, native and alien, sensuous and cold.
The beach is an archeological slice of undefined time and space; a site of both genesis and apocalypse; Eros and Tanatos, playful gathering and lethargic dream, beauty and catastrophe. The drift-wood of the future is washed ashore. The turtle shells are filled with styrofoam. The stones and fossils are covered in pinkish chewing gum. The tree trunks are overgrown with metal moss. Culture, nature, past, present and future – everything comes together on this beach. We swim in one water: we live together in a perpetual intraaction, our bodies penetrating one another, sometimes even with-out noticing it.
solo show at Köttinspektionen, Uppsala, 2020
The show “We Swim in One Water” addresses the intimate connections between organisms, the fragility of ecosystems, and uncertainty for the future. It investigates how everything is intertwined, and how we are always emerging as a part of something greater. What does it mean to live together in a constant exchange of energy and physical matter with human and non-human Others?
”We Swim in One Water” is moved on one hand by the beauty and sublimity of the world and, on the other, a constant anxiety for what awaits us with climate change and mass extinction. The categories and boundaries familiar to us are reshuffled in a rapidly changing world – romantic notions of nature die out as naïve, while something new, exciting, perhaps even dangerous, comes in their stead. The exhibition’s narrative unfolds on a symbolic beach - a liminal place where elemental water meets a piece of land. The ocean connects everything on geographical, biological, and spiritual levels.
Entities drifting from unknown, faraway places find new residence here. The inhabitants of the beach - hybrid sculptures, composed from found objects scattered on the sand - are a fading remembrance of extinct species, or imagined newcomers, the future cyborg-dinosaurs. One part of this hybrid rep-resents the natural, bodily, sexual, animalistic, and the visceral. Another part represents an Anthropocene outgrowth on the organic body. Either co-living or competition - this hybridity touches upon the notions of the transient and permanent, dead and alive, native and alien, sensuous and cold.
The beach is an archeological slice of undefined time and space; a site of both genesis and apocalypse; Eros and Tanatos, playful gathering and lethargic dream, beauty and catastrophe. The drift-wood of the future is washed ashore. The turtle shells are filled with styrofoam. The stones and fossils are covered in pinkish chewing gum. The tree trunks are overgrown with metal moss. Culture, nature, past, present and future – everything comes together on this beach. We swim in one water: we live together in a perpetual intraaction, our bodies penetrating one another, sometimes even with-out noticing it.
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DRIFT
Hybrids of drift wood and other artefacts, driven ashore on the lake. Wood, a part form office chair, a rubber tube, a road light-reflecting pole, a candle, a piece of a plastic bag. The sculptures were built and left in the landscape, where the artefacts were found. Akkajaure, Ritsem, Sweden.
Hybrids of drift wood and other artefacts, driven ashore on the lake. Wood, a part form office chair, a rubber tube, a road light-reflecting pole, a candle, a piece of a plastic bag. The sculptures were built and left in the landscape, where the artefacts were found. Akkajaure, Ritsem, Sweden.