- Where is my land
- 2024
- Gustav Adolfs Torg
The installation Where is my land is made by the sentences “NOWHERE IS MY LAND” and “ANYWHERE IS MY LAND” written with led lights on a free-standing structure. The location Gustav Adolfs Torg has been chosen by the artists Carla Zaccagnini and Runo Lagomarsino as it faces both the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with their different designations of a Nation State and its borders.
During the day, “NOWHERE IS MY LAND” addresses a sense of alienation, displacement, or a lack of belonging, as well as a critique of the construction and maintenance of borders, nationalism, and exclusion. At dusk, the message changes to “ANYWHERE IS MY LAND”, as an acknowledgement of diasporic identity, where home is not a fixed location but rather a sense of community that goes beyond geopolitical boundaries.
Alfred Nobel founded an international prize in a time when nationalism was becoming increasingly present around him. During his life, Nobel saw how the growth of nationalist movements led to an escalation of conflicts that eventually culminated in World War I. His establishment of the Nobel Peace Prize can be seen as a response to the dangers he perceived in such nationalist fervour. As we’re once again living in a time of growing nationalism, it’s important to address the right of belonging in any country.
- Runo Lagomarsino & Carla Zaccagnini
Carla Zaccagnini was born in 1973 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is the Professor of Conceptual and Contextual Practices at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, in Copenhagen. She has had solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions in art institutions around the world. Her work can be found in public collections including Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate Modern, London, MASP, Sao Paulo, and Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Runo Lagomarsino was born in 1977 in Lund, Sweden. In 2019 Lagomarsino was awarded The Friends of Moderna Museet Sculpture Prize, with a parallel solo exhibition at Moderna Museet, Stockholm. He has had solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions in art institutions around the world. His work can be found in public collections including Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Modern Art, New York, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guandong, Coppel Collection, Mexico City, Kiasma Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki and Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
This installation is a collaboration between Nobel Week Lights and Stockholm Konst.
Curator: Ann Magnusson
“The themes of belonging and displacement have always been central to our works, not only as critical elements but are also as real conditions deeply intertwined with our daily lives and personal identities. Experiences of exile and a fractured feeling of belonging shape our understanding of who we are, how we relate to the world around us, and how we navigate the spaces we inhabit. They are, in essence, inscribed in our bodies—manifested through our emotions, behaviours, physical presence and artistic practice.”
