March 16th–June 6th, 2024
Over the course of the past five years, Rejmyre Art Lab’s Center for Peripheral Studies has been exploring the theme of refuge. This exploration began with the work of the center’s artistic leader, Daniel Peltz, in the form of a ritualized architectural process, Refuging in Rejmyre. Following this initiation of the theme, a two-month residency program invited six artists to explore the idea of giving and taking refuge.
The result was a kind of toolkit of suggestions for how to give and take refuge - a “Refuging Toolkit”. The exhibition in Engelska Magasinet, features artifacts from both of these processes. The works range from performance documentation, to videos and sculptures that feature personal practices and expressions of an expansive desire for acceptance and belonging.
In formulating the refuging project, Peltz asks us to reconsider the notion of refuge, not as a noun (a refuge, a refugee, etc.) but as a verb, a vital, inherently reciprocal set of actions. Rather than focusing specifically on refugees or current political crises, the works explore the concept of refuge as a subtle physical and social space.
The Refuging Residency was made possible by support from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Nordic Culture Point and the Swedish Arts Council. Rejmyre Art Labs exhibition program is made possible by support from Swedish Arts Council, Region Östergötland and Finspångs kommun. The Refuging Pavilion has been financed by Kulturbryggan.
Curated by Anna Märta Danielsson
Artists in the exhibition: Beatrice Alvestad Lopez, Samineh Asri, Sam Grabowska, Anx Kupiainen, Ilze Mazpane, Katarzyna Pagowska, Daniel Peltz
Take a look in the exhibition catalouge
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