April 3rd–May 17th, 2026
This exhibition brings together artworks and artifacts from two previous exhibitions (Seeking an Anything in the Ruins of Rejmyre’s Future and Refuging in Rejmyre) from the long-term work of Rejmyre Art Lab’s co-founder, Daniel Peltz. The two exhibitions present work produced over a decade and take on the challenge of the future, or possible futures, for this glass factory town in the forests of Östergötland.
Peltz takes on this challenge by returning to the origin story of this place, born of the Swedish/Russian war over Finland (the Finnish War). In 1809, Sweden lost this war with Russia and along with it, lost the glass industries that were located there. In response, several new glass factories were built, including the Reijmyre Glasbruk (founded in 1810). Peltz builds on an understanding of Rejmyre as ‘a refuge’ for the production of glass, a safe haven for Sweden to obtain this vital material and the objects it produced. He extends this concept of a safe haven for the production of objects to a safe haven for the production of ‘socio/cultural goods’.
He does this by introducing the provocative question: How does a factory town that produces glass, become a factory town that produces refuge? Peltz makes a claim that sites like Rejmyre, that have been used up in the cycle of extraction, depletion and abandonment, are not just good enough places to house refugees but places that are uniquely well suited to developing the practice of refuging because they themselves are in need of refuge.
The exhibition includes works by a number of collaborators including:
- a 1:100 architectural model for a refuge in Remyre for unemployed logging elephants from the teak forests of Myanmar, produced as part of a collaboration with Atelier Kristoffer Tejlgaard
- a bracket construction system (visible in the benches and tables used in the refuge building process and in the benches and monitor stands throughout this show) for creating a deconstructable and thus easily transportable set of home furniture, designed and produced by Swedish sculptor David Larsson
- a tourist video of elephants and their keepers working in the teak forests of Myanmar, produced by Michael Baglin, 2013
- a video produced by the Hembygdsföreningen Gamla Rejmyre on the occasion of an ice-dive expedition that recovered a fallen linbana cart from the nearby Lake Hunn