I den täta nattdimman (in this dense night fog)
2024- ongoing
The Almö Bridge on Tjörn was destroyed one foggy night when a ship went off course. I have collected old postcards of this bridge, which for the first time connected Tjörn to the mainland in the form of a road. The images that point to a romantic idea of infrastructure and summer holidays are unaware of the tragedy that will occur later. While the images are based on a local/national identity of the coast, I place myself in the non-existent landscape and write home about displacement.
Navigating being an immigrant in the process of integration, I reflect on cultural heritage, agricultural legacy and the political forces that shape the landscape. In the search for context and meaning, where language, memory and physical place function as sites of negotiation and transformation with the place I happen to inhabit now, the Swedish west coast. The texts are a fragmented investigation of land, memory and identity, exploring the tensions between belonging and displacement, past and present. Through the postcards, I reflect on personal and collective histories and highlight the distance between generations, languages and places.