Avtryck. Men vädret på radion var Högtryck.
2007, four screen-printed fabric banners, 4-6 m x 1.3m. Master degree project at the Konstfack University College of Art, Craft and Design
My graduation project takes the history and location of the art college as its point of departure. The surrouding area (Hägersten) has been shaped by Ericsson and the emergence of communication technology, and the idea of the Swedish welfare state and suburb. Ylva Eggehorn describes the post war ambience of the fifties in her book ”Kvarteret Radiomottagaren”, as she experienced it during her childhood. Through a poetic language and a narration grounded in the personal experience, she describes the spirit of the times more efficiently than any analytical text. I transferred quotes from the book to banners on the façades of the college, and in this way applied the language and strategies of political resistance. However, also the language of promotion: an intimate material was inhabiting the format and placing of many commercial texts in the public realm today. The texts could be perceived as voices from the past, and they enabled a temporal perspective and comparison between two periods. Aesthetically, the banners referred to home-made ”do-it-your-self” manufacturing, yet carefully detailed, and to demonstration banners, old typefaces, newspaper headlines and promotion signs. The work was later the same year presented in a solo exhibition at Wip:Konsthall in Stockholm (an art space and studio building in Årstaberg close to Hägersten), in collaboration with the curator Karolina Pahlén.
Konstfack Spring Exhibition
WIP : Konsthall Stockholm
