RED LINES
During the exhibition period, four actions are performed by Elin Wikström in the exhibition space and the Botanical Garden, where she joins together airplanes and bombs from smaller parts that have been cut out of corrugated cardboard and glued.

The artist stack boxes on or inside each other, labeled with various so-called critical raw materials, which are affected by disruptions in the global supply chains. For example, the use of magnesium and lithium in the manufacture of aircraft, wind turbines or battery production. Day by day, Wikström collects information and newspaper clippings from daily newspapers and walks around the park interviewing people about Russia’s war in Ukraine. The intention of the exhibition is to process and document the war reporting from a Swedish perspective.

About Elin Wikström

Elin Wikström (b. 1965) is educated at HDK Valand – Academy of Art and Design 1987 – 92. Her works are participatory and take place in dialogue with different contexts. They question norms, values and logics for how to speak, think and act. The aim of her artistic practice is to reflect on current social, political and cultural issues. In terms of art theory, these methods belong to the fields of conceptual art and the 1990s and 2000s developments in process-based, socially engaged art. She has participated in hundreds of solo and group exhibitions in Sweden and internationally and is represented in the collections of Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Gothenburg Art Museum and Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, among others.