- site-specific installation as a part of NONAGONFESTIVAL 2026
- old cistern at Svanö, Västernorrland, Sweden
- July 2026
Allow me to introduce you to FLUMEN DIVISUM, a large-scale site-specific abstract installation. The half-hanging formation surrounding the viewer is composed of recycled wooden planks, industrial PVC, mirror films, LED Neon Flex light and sound, forming three main parts captured in a state of frozen movement. These concealed forms are conceived as mutable entities, shifting from straight, long elements into a soft organic structure and vice versa. Together, they create a circular movement and allow the complex structure to interact with the exhibition space, becoming one with it through its own energy.
As you move through the installation, you may notice compositions on mirror films. These surfaces carry outlined drawings tracing the environment in which the artwork is installed. Your reflection appears among these lines, placing you within the work itself. The intense red light reveals the inner structure, yet it is also blinding. It connects you to the installation, while at the same time making it difficult to remain within it for too long. What may first seem chaotic gradually unfolds into a layered spatial experience, where every detail and every moment inside reveals more of its complexity.
FLUMEN DIVISUM is the Latin translation of “divided flow” or “divided river,” and is inspired by local historical events connected to Ådalen 31. Reflecting on the history of this site, I envision continuity under disturbance: a flow that is split or redirected, but continues; a bodily current altered by the conditions around it. It is an echo that brings past struggles into the present context.
Here I reflect on the fragile threshold between order and disorder, organic and artificial, continuity and disturbance — a space where inside and outside begin to blur, where body, material, and space become intertwined. I like to wonder whether the artwork is shaped by the environment, or whether the environment is shaped by the artwork. My inspiration for this installation comes from post-industrial sites and place-responsiveness. I imagine the project as a remnant of a disrupted environment, one that reflects on body hybridity, unsettles the boundaries between human, animal, and machine, and reconfigures spatial relations in posthuman contexts. The work considers systems that can destroy and transform at once, often operating unnoticed while shaping new realities.
