Installation
part of group show Out of place at c4 projects
in collaboration with Piscine, Sixty Eight art institute and Cantine.
Copenhagen 2021
In her work ‘Bruket’ Sara Annsofidotter takes the Swedish industrial city of Degerfors where she was raised as a point of departure. Degerfors’ landscape is shaped by the ice age, and today carries large volumes of water through its river. The power produced by the river is the foundation for the iron and steel production that has been the town’s lifeblood for over a hundred years. Like many post-industrial towns, Degerfors is now facing a turning point: production has changed and investment has dwindled. What remains is the landscape which also frames the artistic investigation of a region, where a former industry and a natural landscape intertwines with the occupants’ everyday rhythms and economies. In her work, Annsofidotter uses both a personal and political narrative, with an archive of drawings, photos and poetry centered around the river, the money, the woods and the steel.
by Mark Tholander, curator
Supported by Slots- og kulturstyrelsen
Image: Rikke Ehlers Nilsson
Press: idoart.dk
mountain man with scrawny hand
football marxist in the iron land
they turn me into an altar tree
where sinful mankind will bend their knee