Untitled, 2025
Siri Tolander
installation
For Playground of the Invisible i propose to create a series of smaller installations, sculptures and interventions along daily commuter routes of Stockholm. The work will consist of materials and aesthetics that are already present at their respective places. Enhancing something that is a bit odd or framing a detail that deserves to be noticed.
One example is small parts of fences that are placed as a safety measure but that are too small to actually have any effect besides the visual marker of there being a fence. The inefficiency makes me look at it more like a small public sculpture on a cliff next to a bridge just by one of the very used bike paths. Painting it in a bright or reflective colour would lift its existence and make it more visible to others.
Other spots are the overgrown platforms next to roads that are always backed up with long queues during rush hour. Small places accessible with a bit of determination but where the lack of care show them to be of low value for the city. Placing sculptures at these places can create small shifts in what can be a fairly tedious part of one's day.
Some sculptures can move around during the exhibition, creating a small Where's Waldo game for everyday life. Maybe others will move it as well.
Using the same colour for all the installations would link the installations and sculptures to the interventions. All created in spots that can easily be overlooked and forgotten. It will be art for the curious mind but also potentially invisible. The colour may stand out but placement and material will not.
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About the Artist
I am Siri Tolander. Living and working in Stockholm, Sweden.
My art practice centres around sculpture and site specific installations where objects and arrangements represent both a dystopian and utopian view upon the world. Inspiration comes from crude constructions, raw material and the view upon the city as an organic construction. Methods and ideas are partly derived from Foucault's theories on heterotopias and slightly customised situationist methods in exploring and observing their surroundings. I wish to create sites that challenge our view of everyday surroundings. Doing this from a personal perspective. To learn and explore by feeling and moving through space while creating and constructing art.
When working site specific I use materials that exist in or have a connection to the location. Combining expressions from previous projects and explorations with what I see, have access to and experience at the moment.
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