Our work for Bienalsur investigates how the seemingly safe everyday life could be affected by various unpredictable crises. With topics like preparedness, emergency shelters and food rationing, the aim is to make it possible for visitors to examine conflicts, traumas, and fears from different angles while asking them to reflect on the high standard of living that we take for granted. 

In 1945 Malmö Art Museum (SE) was converted into a shelter for refugees who were liberated from concentrations camps. We view this as an example of a strong act of solidarity and practical help from the art world as well as creative rethinking that functions as a starting point for our project. Our installation will take the shape of a fictional emergency shelter with beds covered with human hair and filled with details like ration coupons and modified objects, all fenced in with military netting. The materials will be stripped of their intended purpose and assembled together to create a new sculptural composition that explores the current need for unorthodox solutions with growing global homelessness in relation to neoliberalism's excesses such as expanding gentrification. We aim to critically reflect on failures of the past, and shed light on the possibility to rediscover the common public interest and limit the greed of private actors who speculate with common goods.