Robyn Backen was selected, in collaboration with SPACED, as our 2016–17 resident artist. She conducted a research visit in 2016 and returned for a residency period in 2017, where she realized her project in Rejmyre that was also exhibited as part of the SPACED 3 traveling exhibition.
Robyn Backen is an artist from Australia. She spent two months in Rejmyre, and in connection with Östgötadagarna the results of her work was presented: I Am Glass, a speaking glass installation, and Barn Wall, an outdoor sculpture inspired by the red-painted boards of local barns. Embedded in the wall’s transparency is a text that only becomes visible when the sun projects the mirrored letters onto the ground. The work was moved between different locations in the village. Residents, visitors, and children where invited to create shadow drawings of the work using sidewalk chalk.
Robyn Backen was part of the program Spaced 3: north by southeast, which places Nordic and Australian artists in small communities in Western Australia and the Nordic countries. Rejmyre Art Lab is one of the Nordic host institutions.