A temporary installation made in relation to the site and to the concept of watching through binoculars. Part of the outdoor group show Art Viewing in the bird watching area of Hammarskog outside Uppsala. Participating artists: Anna Einarsson, Anna-Karin Brus, Jessica Faiss, Leo Correia de Verdier, My Lindh and Sofie Proos. Curators: Anna Einarsson and Jessica Faiss
Work Type: Installation
Air Space
Site-specific temporary installation in Uppsala Hospital Park, part of the exhibition Horizon of the Hospital, 2021
Uppsala hospital now houses a studio association but was built as a psychiatric hospital that opened in 1885. Air Space consisted in three different air spaces with benches, placed in the park outside Uppsala Hospital. The dimensions of the spaces corresponded to the cubic meters of air calculated for the different patient categories at the Hospital: 39.5 m3 for first-class patients, 19.8 m3 for calm patients and 16.7 m3 for “anxious and untidy”. The ceiling height is 3.8 m in all three air spaces, corresponded to that in the Hospital building. The visitor could lie down on the bench, feel the space and look up at the sky.
Here
The installation was carried out in the village of Seidisfjördur on the icelandic east coast. The installation consisted a flag provided with the text HÉR (HERE in icelandic). The flag was placed half-way up on the mountain situated opposite the gallery. In the gallery a strong telescope was aimed at the flag. Looking through the telescope one could read the text on the flag. Without a telescope the flag was invisible.
Tågteve (installation)
The large scale installation Tågteve (Train TV) was displayed along the railway between Stockholm and Uppsala (Sweden) in the summer of 2012. Via 28 large subtitle signs, the passenger was able to follow a dialogue about travelling and reality as a film.
The installation was made possible with kind support from Konstfrämjandet, Knivsta municipality, Kulturbryggan, Uppsala municipality and Uppsala County.
Pictured sentences:
– Will we never leave this place?
– Nah.
– What do you mean?
– This is how it continues.
In 2016 Tågteve was published as a book on Jon Brunberg Publishing with design by Sandra Praun and texts by Marianna Garin, Khashayar Naderehvandi and Monica Sand.
Tågteve is also a video work (7.52 min) that has been shown at Bonniers Art Hall and Gallery Off-Konsten in Uppsala in connection with the release of the Tågteve book and at Studio 44 Animation and Video Screening Program.
Camera: Carl Dieker
Distribution: Filmform – The Art Film & Video Archive
The Sun Mountain
The Sun Mountain is a commissioned work for Solberga outside of Stockholm. The commission came about after my work with the public commission Time to stay which was made in the same area. The Sun Mountain consists in a big stone and a pear-tree. The shadow of the pear-tree has been sandblasted into the surface of the stone. The stone was found and saved when new houses in the area of Solberga were built.
Commissioner: Konstnärscentrum öst
Art consultant: Birgitta Silfverhielm
I Moved in the Direction of the Text
Nine site-specific sentences have been sandblasted into the built environment at various locations in the residential area Vallastaden, Linköping. The sentences address people moving in the area, while walking on the sidewalk, crossing a corner or looking over a railing. The main character in the texts is the reader themselves in relation to their own posture, the surrounding nature and the bypassing moment.
Pictured sentences:
my curiosity | around the next corner | led me further
I moved closer to the maple | in the direction of the text | towards City Gross | Kaliningrad | Damascus
there | against the wall | I had to bend down | to read on
I could have stepped on them | but read the words | neck facing the sky
if the light were to fall against the letters | my shadow on the ground | underneath would be darkness, roots, earth
Commissioned by the municipality of Linköping for Vallastaden
Art consultant: Åsa-Viktoria Wihlborg for ArtPlatform
Special thanks to: Khashayar Naderehvandi and Rikard Heberling
Time to Stay
Time to stay is a commissioned work for Rubinvägen outside of Stockholm. The work relates to the changing cityscape and population by discussing time, circulation and traces. The work consists in three parts: Then, Now and Soon. The oak is a central element in all three parts. The work was conducted in collaboration with residents in the area and actively involves the residents aswell as the visitors of the area through their everyday movements.
Then is a number of marks after the bigger trees that grew around Rubinvägen before new houses were built in the area. The annual rings after each tree has been sandblasted into the limestone of the new houses’ entrance halls. On new walking paths the circumference of the trees have been marked through carriage bolts hammered into the asphalt.
Now are seating marks in park benches. The residents in the area have contributed to the work by leaving their seating marks. 14 of these have been cut out in oak and made as intarsia into the pinewood benches. The wood of the benches has been impregnated with an organic method which make the wood age naturally.
Soon is a big oak that has been planted in the area. Some big trees were taken down when the new houses in the area were built. I saved oak corns from the area and let them grow to plants. At the inauguration of the work, the residents were invited to make a common planting of 12 of the plants, in order to let a new oak grow in the area. An oak is said to grow for 300 years, live for 300 years and die for 300 years.
Commissioner: Konstnärscentrum öst and Stockholm Konst
Art consultant: Birgitta Silfverhielm
Special thanks to all the residents who contributed with their seating marks
Postcards from Gränby
Postcards from Gränby was a site-specific, temporary installation commissioned by Uppsala municipality in Sweden. The work consisted in five signs placed in the nature surrounding a big shopping mall. Just next to the shopping mall are fields and pastures and one of Swedens oldest churches. At the time of the installation, the area was undergoing major change – there were plans for a new residential area, an arena and more.
Postcards from Gränby, which is the name of the piece, want to get your eyes to slow down and see the process underway in the area, which is under heavy development and commercialisation of a rate that might not only make us charmed by the desire to buy and hope for the future. Himmel och fält / Sky and field notes laconically a subtitle in front of, well, a sky and a field. Natur / Nature it says in front of a grove. Kulturbygd / Cultural heritage recites a banner in front of Vaksala Church, which during its nearly 1,000-year of age during a justifiable time has been an obvious focal point in the landscape. The flashy shopping centre that the big mall constitutes, you might say, has stolen the historic building’s position on the plain. Or inherited. The old stone body from the 1100s is of course, if you choose this perspective, part of the same human movement, the domestic annexation, as Gränby Centre is.
—Sebastian Johans, excerpt from a review in Uppsala Nya Tidning, 2016
Postcards from Gränby is produced with support from Uppsala Municipality and is part of the Uppsala Municipality Art Collection.