I att dra sig framåt och samtidigt förflytta sig med en långsam flykt genom bröstet där våra ömma händer fortfarande håller oss vid liv(2019)

140 x 97 cm
Archival Pigment Print with white glazed birch frame
Edition 3 + 1 ap

In my photographic narratives, I often intertwine symbolism and fiction with contemporary observations and human needs. These stories are not just images but constructed worlds where imagination meets lived experience. In this particular work, I set out to explore the deep human desire for anchorage — the instinctive search for belonging, for a place to call home, even in the midst of change and uncertainty.

To bring this vision to life, I built a large-scale scenography outdoors in Öbacka, Umeå a structure measuring 9 meters in length and 3.3 meters in height. It became a kind of temporary monument to the idea of home, standing exposed in the landscape, vulnerable yet present. I worked with raw materials, mixing my own pigments by hand, creating the illusion of a domestic space from the ground up. The construction process itself became part of the narrative a gesture of care, intention, and labor that mirrored the human effort to build meaning and stability in an ever-shifting world.

At the heart of the work lies the meeting point between human, home, and landscape. These three elements form a triad I return to again and again, especially in light of transformations brought about by rapid urbanization, industrial expansion, and the climate crisis. As physical and cultural landscapes change, so too do our relationships to place. The home is no longer just a fixed location it becomes a mobile, sometimes fragile idea we carry with us, seek to recreate, or try to hold onto.

We humans are both agents and subjects in this process. We make decisions about our future, shape the environments we live in, and are constantly faced with the challenge of adapting, whether by choice or necessity to new places and contexts. In this work, the human figure stands surrounded by nature: still, alert, caught in a quiet tension between movement and rootedness. There is a desire to move forward, to adapt and grow but also a deep need for the grounding presence of home, even if that home is only temporary, constructed, or imagined.

The work invites reflection on what it means to belong in a world where permanence is rare. Can we truly anchor ourselves in a landscape we do not fully know? What happens to our sense of identity when the places we come from no longer exist in the way we remember them? Is home something we build, or something we find?

Ultimately, this piece asks us to consider how we relate to the spaces we inhabit and how those spaces, in turn, shape who we are.

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