At Reijmyre Glassworks, 2019
Mattias Hofvendahl’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 located in the glassworks.
Mattias Hofvendahl has created a sound installation that takes as its starting point the levels of pollution measured in the wetland area behind the glassworks. The work is built from sine tones whose vibrations, together with the glass placed in the speaker elements, create a continuously evolving composition.
The installation is constructed around the production taking place in the furnace. The encounter between these two processes helps to embody the intention of the work: to create a non-crystallized space where the history of the glassworks is illuminated in the present while also being able to move into the future.
Mattias Hofvendahl is a sound and video artist based in Linköping. He studied at Valand Academy of Arts and Lunnevads Folkhögskola.