Mir

The world travels through time and changes with and without our actions. Systems are maintained and collapsed at the same time. The simple lock keeper's residence, the down-to-earth work, has also been part of a larger context. Everything breathes at the same time and the pain goes in waves along the whole world's body.

The preservation of a place evokes a relationship with the past, which we can witness through the cloudy lens of time. For me, the relationship awakened a connection to my own family history, to something deeply personal and inherited that I carried with me from another place. Here, places and events converge through my  hands. I search for answers to existential questions through the past. Before my inner vision, time and space collapse and I look for hands to hold from all sides. There is at least one point where yours, mine, and their family line barely survived. For many, that point is right now. The opposite of breathing freely and living in freedom is devastating. Everything ends up in a single exclamation: Peace! 

The exhibition Mir was shown scattered in Skantzen in Hallstahammar during the summer of 2024. The exhibition highlighted both a personal and general perspectives of human experience and connected them in relation to Skantzen and its symbolic value as a bearer of history.


https://vastmanland.konstframjandet.se/projekt/the-risk-of-collapse/anna-torronen