Two skies

(2020)

4k video / 3 screen installation / 23,42 min (loop) / sound

Cinematographer: Sol Archer

Sound: Sol Archer

Colourist: Laurent Fluttert

Sound design and mix: Robert Kroos

Proofreading for subtitles: Liz Allen

Tow skies is a work that departs from the memories of the artist’s mum’s volunteer trip from Sweden to a kibbutz in Israel in 1972. The work oscillates between the artist’s mum’s narration about her life as a 17’n young woman in Sweden, her ideas and desires of exploring the socialist utopia at the kibbutz and her experience from the trip and time as a volunteer. Along this, a conversation takes place between the artist and her mum about the Swedish, global political, social and religious environments that enabled volunteer trips to kibbutz. The stories and the conversation establish a tension between the mum’s empirical knowledge and memories, and the historical and studied knowledge of the artist. The tension builds up and breaks down the 

conversation in which gaps between the generations and their idea of history and the political and philosophical climate and identity becomes visible. 

The work is shot in the house and the garden where the artist’s mum moved to with her family in 1972. The imagery from the house works as an architectural reference to a 1970’s Sweden. It talks about the ideas of the nuclear family and togetherness. The garden then becomes a placeholder for longing and a dream of constructing an alternative living outside the format of the family.

Made possible by the generous support of the Mondriaan Fond.