Some of the artists in the exhibition work with creating temporary spaces and bringing attention to places that make time and space for something new that comprise both something of what one has left behind and the feeling one longs to create but that does not yet exist.
With the sound work De sino a sina (from bell to fate), Carla Zaccagnini lets the audience turn their gaze towards a church bell with a wondrous story that begins in brutal colonialism and silence, and ends in the suggestive timbre of Brazil’s multicultural history.
In Goldin+Senneby’s The Plot (Bloemen), an enclosing installation, the walls are covered from top to bottom with a prehistoric foliage painted with coal pigments. The work becomes a journey in both horizontal and vertical directions, through time and layers of soil, where the human is put in proportion to its much older fellow traveler, the forest.
Jumana Manna turns to music as a kind of last resort in escaping the incomprehensibility of violence. In the video work A Magical Substance Flows Into Me, the close relationships between Jews, Muslims and other peoples that have lived side by side in Palestine and the Middle East for centuries are unfolded through songs and instrumental traditions.
The artists participating in the exhibition work with video, installation, painting, collage and architecture, and their mutual encounter at Tensta konsthall in the fall of 2024 becomes a space of stillness, wonder and reflection.
Participating artists and architects: Asli Abdulrahman Ali, Carlos Capelán, Andjeas Ejiksson and Joanna Zawieja, Goldin+Senneby, Susanna Marcus Jablonski, Eric Magassa, Jumana Manna, Walid Raad and Carla Zaccagnini. In connection to the exhibition, a series of lectures and talks will take place in collaboration with Marie-Louise Richards, Stockholms Arkitekter, Arkitekter utan gränser and ArkDes among others. Furthermore, Shahram Khosravi, Professor of Social Anthropology/SU, contributes with a new text written specially for the exhibition.
Imagine an after
Participating artists: Asli Abdulrahman Ali, Carlos Capelán, Andjeas Ejiksson and Joanna Zawieja, Goldin+Senneby, Susanna Marcus Jablonski, Eric Magassa, Jumana Manna, Walid Raad and Carla Zaccagnini. Curators: Paulina Sokolow and Cecilia Widenheim
7.11 2024—21.4 2025
In the fall of 2024, Tensta konsthall invites a group of artists to an attempt to imagine a space for reflection on different ways forward in a time of escalating conflicts around the world; situations that constantly leave new ruins and the displacement of people in their wake. The exhibition approaches the question of what can be contained in an “after”. The hybrid cultures that inevitably emerge in the quest for a new existence often trigger processes of change that can be both painful and a matter of fact.
The forces that are put into motion and force people to imagine a new fate, a new horizon and future, can change our accustomed values and ways of thinking through experiences and a rich flora of mastered knowledge and survival strategies. How can the energy and the force that arise at a crossroads or in a situation that at first appears to be collapsing, be transformed into an incentive for change and suggest a new direction?
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The forces that are put into motion and force people to imagine a new fate, a new horizon and future, can change our accustomed values and ways of thinking through experiences and a rich flora of mastered knowledge and survival strategies. How can the energy and the force that arise at a crossroads or in a situation that at first appears to be collapsing, be transformed into an incentive for change and suggest a new direction?
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On until
21.4 2025Opens
7.11 2024
21.4 2025Opens
7.11 2024
Exhibition is open
Tuesday—Friday 11—17
Saturday and Sunday 12—17
Closed 24 December—1 January
Free entrance
Tuesday—Friday 11—17
Saturday and Sunday 12—17
Closed 24 December—1 January
Free entrance
