At the store Rejmyre Antik, 2019
Frida Hållander’s work is part of the three-year long artistic research project “DeTox – Clean it up!” in which Rejmyre Art Lab invited a group of artists to work based on the situation of 200 years of pollution behind Reijmyre Glassworks. The work is available as tissue paper for wrapping at the store Rejmyre Antik.
The Lung of the Factory explores the landfill of Reijmyre Glassworks, focusing on the lung as part of the human body and as a story of how toxins are stored both in the body and in the soil. Hållander also revisits the labor movement and looks back at how people have fought in Rejmyre, including by locating and documenting a banner from the labour union Svenska Fabriksarbetareförbundet, Avdelning 376 – Rejmyre (currently stored between sheets of tissue paper at the Norrköping Union Archive). The banner is activated alongside imagery from the factory and the lung through photography, film, and drawing. Part of the work exists as a graphic print on tissue paper for wrapping glass objects at Rejmyre Antique Shop.
Frida Hållander is a craftsperson educated at the Department of Ceramics and Glass at Konstfack University of Art Craft and Design, where she also earned a doctorate through her work Whose Hand is Doing It? in collaboration with HDK – School of Design and Crafts in Gothenburg. The dissertation is a practice-based study that raises questions about craft, class, feminism, and the will to fight.