Where’s Lucy?
Video, 11:15 min, 2021
The film follows some characters who are looking for their friend Lucy. They are in different places adjacent to Hagaparken and explore them in a state of waiting and boredom, aimlessly wandering. With the film, I wanted to investigate how to examine a place through characters and how the conditions of the place shape people's movement patterns. The film was shown at the exhibition One Million Years in the Greenhouse at Hagaparken, Stockholm.
Photo: Johanna Kindahl. The picture shows works by Nicole Newsha Khadivi and Rebecka Bergman.
Photo: Johanna Kindahl. The picture shows a work by Sara Ekholm Eriksson.
One Million Years
Group show at the Greenhouse at Hagaparken, Stockholm. February - mars 2021
The exhibition project One Million Years takes place in a greenhouse located in what was previously a bus stop and a space for bus drivers to and from Arlanda could rest and have a coffee.
For the project, the Greenhouse has been transformed into an experimental sculpture of moving images, which is lit at dusk and turned off at dawn. One Million Years is a collective montage of different films by students at the Royal Institute of Art, projected onto the big windows. The exhibition is to be experienced from the outside. There is interplay between outside and inside, transparency and reflection, time, light and movement. Abstraction and narration are woven together and unraveled by temporal shifts during the course of the exhibition. The filmic sculpture becomes a mirror of its surroundings, both an image and a gaze, and a brain whose becoming and past are to a large extent still located in the future. In the collective montage, an all-encompassing story is not possible.
One Million Years is an experiment and an examination of the place and its surroundings. Within a radius of one kilometer lies Hagaparken with the Copper Tents, the Chinese Pavilion and Haga castle ruin, founded by Gustav III. Here are the ideals of the Enlightenment, the spirit of Rousseau and living close to nature. Next to the Greenhouse there is also the Hagströmer Library, with a historical archive of books, journals and copper plates in the fields of medicine, anatomy, pharmacy, natural history and biology. On the other side of the E4 lies the economical and political disaster Karolinska Institutet, Sweden’s largest university hospital that with the help of Boston Consulting Group, despite the protests from the hospital employees, introduced the care concept “worth-based care”, which has created enormous holes in the budget, a mass flight of employees and caused patients to die in growing operation queues.
Initiator and project leader: Lina Selander, guest professor at the Royal Institute of Art.