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Sweden, Switzerland

Past Resident
2024: Danish Arts Foundation

Artist

Sara Sjölin

Sara Sjölin’s practice encompasses film, speech, performance, and installation. Her work delves into comedy rooted from tragedy, transforming feelings of anxiety and discomfort into moments of affection and laughter through art. Shaped by the serendipitous events within her conceptual frameworks, her pieces develop in an inherent way, often diverging from her initial intentions and interpretations.

Sara Sjölin has exhibited work at Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland; SALTS, Switzerland; and CPH:DOX, Denmark, among others.

Jettes Dinerskole is a comedy that takes place between a guest teacher and the evening school students from Fyn's Laboratory for Young Art. We follow a script meeting and the location (Jette's Diner), where the recordings become, simultaneously, the students' short film and Sara Sjölin's work; a film about a workshop on making film.
Sara Sjölin, Jettes Dinerskole, 2024, video 5.1 installation, 30 min.
Min Englefisse was made for June Art Fair (Basel), with two accompanying performances. The recordings that were shot during the performances will result in two additional video pieces which will be shown at CHART (Copenhagen Art Fair).
Sara Sjölin, Min Englefisse, 2024, video, 27:12 min.
In THE FLOOD, Sjölin projects anthropomorphic biographical anecdotes onto wild animals from an episode of National Geographic.
Sara Sjölin, THE FLOOD, 2023, video/performance, 18:57 min.
Sara Sjölin retells the tragicomic story of her destructive, failed relationship with an ex­boyfriend in great detail in ‘Sportcast 2’, to the images of an old football match between arch­rivals Malmö FF and Helsingborgs IF played out in its entirety.
Sara Sjölin, Sportcast 2, 2022, video, 01:51:07 min.
In Sjölin’s first Sportscast, Sweden meets Switzerland during the World Cup in football 2018. As a dual citizen, Sjölin felt entitled to provide the game with an alternative commentary track, but the lack of interest in the sport allows her to go off track with anecdotes from her childhood, which alternates between humor and seriousness.
Sara Sjölin, SPORTSCAST, 2019, video, 01:53:32 min.

Residents from Sweden

Tony Karlsson Savci

Sweden
IASPIS - The Swedish Arts Grants Committee's International Programme for Visual Artists
Studio #215

Hanni Kamaly

Sweden
IASPIS - The Swedish Arts Grants Committee's International Programme for Visual Artists
2023

Fatima Moallim

Sweden
IASPIS - The Swedish Arts Grants Committee's International Programme for Visual Artists
2022
Belgium, United States

Past Resident
2024: Artis

Artist

Shir Handelsman

Shir Handelsman explores into the interruptions, emotional discord, and idiosyncrasies of human relationships through his multifaceted art practice, which includes video and film, sculpture, drawing, music, and sound. By situating everyday scenarios within artificial environments, he creates a surreal parallel existence where autobiography, historical myths, and psychedelic fantasies converge. His works possess a performative quality, characterized by complex choreographies and musical compositions. By exploring the interplay between sound installations, large-scale video projections, and kinetic sculptures, Handelsman’s art often embraces a grand, operatic scale.

Shir Handelsman has exhibited work at Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel; Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, South Korea; and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Denmark, among others.

A short video work, which presents an opera singer, standing on a lifted platform and singing a Martyr's wish for redemption.
Shir Handelsman, Recitative, 2019, video, 5 min.
MX lost his ability to visually imagine. An annual blood test marks the beginning of a psychedelic journey, in which he experiences a cognitive reversal: from a state of complete inability to imagine, to a wild and uninhibited hyper-imagination.
Shir Handelsman, NO MORE CANDY FOR YOU, 2022, video, 13 min.
An installation consisting of two parallel mechanisms that work simultaneously in a space: A kinetic sculpture which concentrates its efforts on the slow and continuous breaking of a 200kg limestone, and an intimate video diary of an isolated man, who struggles with miraculous, metaphysical and surrealistic invasions of nature into his domestic space. Each of the works presents a lonely mechanism doomed to fail, from which a world of fantasy is born.
Shir Handelsman, Born, Never Asked, 2021, installation, video, limestone, wood, hammers, aluminum and motors, 8:45 min.
An installation consisting of two parallel mechanisms that work simultaneously in a space: A kinetic sculpture which concentrates its efforts on the slow and continuous breaking of a 200kg limestone, and an intimate video diary of an isolated man, who struggles with miraculous, metaphysical and surrealistic invasions of nature into his domestic space. Each of the works presents a lonely mechanism doomed to fail, from which a world of fantasy is born.
Shir Handelsman, Born, Never Asked, 2021, limestone, wood, hammers, aluminum and motors, 47 × 39 × 39 in. (119.38 × 99.06 × 99.06 cm).
A two-channel installation, presenting two testimonies of a random encounter between a former couple, the divorced parents of the artist. The former couple, who had been married for twenty years, now meet accidentally at a gas station, after they had not spoken or seen each other for over six years.
Shir Handelsman, Morendo, 2018, two-channel video installation, 6:45 min.

Residents from United States

Aryel René Jackson

United States
Vision Fund, National Endowment for the Arts
Studio #305

Hanae Utamura

Japan, United States
Every Page Foundation
Studio #201

Laura Lappi

Finland, United States
Alfred Kordelin Foundation
Studio #205