300 meter essä, 2024
Video installation
20 min
House 11, Hudiksvalls hospital, Sweden (SE)
Commissioner: Region Gävleborg
The video installation 300 meter essä invites the viewer to peer down a half-abandoned tunnel and slowly follow the camera, seemingly towards nothing. This bleak subterranean environment, contrasted by the presence of colorfully hand-painted corridor walls, balances both the concrete and the psychological. These monumental murals depict scenes from Eritrea and Hälsingland, which were painted on the walls of Hudiksvall’s hospital underground passageway by artist Tesfai Darghé between 1994-2004. A series of moving images passes the viewer’s gaze while a voice recites fragments of memories from literary texts.
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300 meter essä, 2024
Video installation
20 min
House 11, Hudiksvalls hospital, Sweden (SE)
Commissioner: Region Gävleborg
Video installation
20 min
House 11, Hudiksvalls hospital, Sweden (SE)
Commissioner: Region Gävleborg
The video installation 300 meter essä invites the viewer to peer down a half-abandoned tunnel and slowly follow the camera, seemingly towards nothing. This bleak subterranean environment, contrasted by the presence of colorfully hand-painted corridor walls, balances both the concrete and the psychological. These monumental murals depict scenes from Eritrea and Hälsingland, which were painted on the walls of Hudiksvall’s hospital underground passageway by artist Tesfai Darghé between 1994-2004. A series of moving images passes the viewer’s gaze while a voice recites fragments of memories from literary texts.
