AIR 2025 Group Show

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KUNSKAP ÄR MAKT is a site-specific film installation set that brings to life the haunted remnants of a former carpentry classroom in a rural Swedish barn. It recreates a fictional student rebellion against a pedagogical system that enforces discipline and knowledge through ritualistic punishment. Drawing from the real historical use of the barn, local ghost stories, and Swedish folklore—particularly a deconstructed version of the Tomte fairy tale. The installation becomes an archaeological site, creating a surreal narrative between the visible traces of the past and the phantasmagoric presence of the present. It introduces a figure that not only protects the space but also tempts outsiders to explore. Its dual role as both guardian and trickster serves to blur the line between fiction and reality.

Film credits: @alvarodenek
Runtime: 7 min

Materials: carpenter's table parts modified in-house with an inner speaker installation playing low-frequency sounds, foam, varnish, uniform trousers, working gloves, aluminum bars, steel car seat, smoke, steel chain, hardwood log bags

Special thanks to:
@joar__torbiornsson @olofbara @pierofigueroabravo Gunilla Kvarnström @myyri.rr @void_terrain @sara_k_trier

Portrait: @san_____dro
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“Was there a hubristic mastery there? A life that is neither open nor hidden was achieved only through the openness of everything. Physics becomes witchcraft and rules the century. Astrology has a halo and builds a new kingdom. All networks are opened through each other's prophecies, and humans have become a universal attitude of life to speculate and transcend themselves. The road from hell to light was long and rough.”  

Ballad of a drum set is a work of speculative fiction set against the backdrop of a “Spiral” built atop a unified, lifeless blue sphere. The narrative unfolds through the low murmurings of the protagonist, Kurimon Peroco, and takes the form of a journal kept by post-human "variants" surviving in an apocalyptic state of anxiety. The work explores the modes of existence adopted by future humans trapped within the loop of self-fulfilling prophecies, and reflects on the consciousness of those who live on, haunted by the sense of a future already gone. By delving into the interiority of beings shaped by collapse, the story becomes a meditation on foregone endings and the recursive logic of survival.

Ballad of drum set  Sound Installation, 14’35, Mixed media, 2025, Dimensions variable
Ballad of drum set  Book, 148 x 210 mm, 26 pages, Black & white printing, 2025

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The two works, Found Objects and Perspective Table, consist of a framed digital print and a sculptural element.

The sculpture draws inspiration from anamorphic imagery, a visual technique revived during the Renaissance, which plays with perception and distortion. It features a horizontal metal print on a cube, displaying a series of 3D-rendered objects, distorted across the surface but visually reassembled through the reflection in a central cylindrical mirror. The same objects also appear in the accompanying framed image, where they lie scattered across a ground plane like fragments from a past event.

The objects were created using 3D scanning techniques and include a commedia dell’arte mask, a metal crowd-control barrier, a souvenir necklace bearing the shape of a skyscraper, a small pile of euro coins, and a grey flag. By assembling these digitally fabricated remnants, the works examine how symbols of culture and politics are interwoven with entertainment, fiction, and economy.

Found Objects
Digital print, acrylic glass, aluminium frame
80x80 cm

Perspective Table
Digital print, aluminium, stainless steel, mdf, pvc
70x70x78 cm (read more) (less)

Bäverland is a site-specific research into the cultural presence of beavers in rural Sweden. The project seeks to reflect on topics seemingly alien to generalized understandings of the beaver’s life, such as labor, failure and anger management as an ironic way to point out the influence of scientific biases on popular culture representations of the natural world.

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Bäverland, 2025
Video installation. Spray paint on wooden cut-out pieces, drawings and looped 2D animation ...

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Jaakko Myyri’s two-channel video installation Mirror Index (7’26) explores how fabulation, finance, and lack of societal transparency can fabricate artificial realities.

Drawing from a series of public speeches by Swedish political and economic figures, Myyri uses machine learning tools to generate voice-cloned narrators—artificial speakers that reverberate real-world justifications for austerity, recession, and the shifting of burdens onto taxpayers and consumers. Touching on the Geymüller banking family’s decline in Sweden—Mirror Index portrays their former estate as a picturesque, ghost story-like backdrop. These digital narrators are layered with accounts of spectral phenomena said to haunt the manor according to locals, merging mythic and economic elements in its Mise-en-scène. Assuming the visual language of documentary, Mirror Index combines found footage, archival imagery, and interviews to trace how “technocratic realism” takes root—a kind of carnival-mirror where elevated perspectives promise clarity, yet are inherently distorted.

Mirror Index
Two-channel video installation, 7’26
Dimensions variable

Pool of Reflections and Distortions
Plant-based filament, glass, pedestal
22 × 22 × 10 cm (read more) (less)

The sculptures belong to an ongoing process where I am interested in belief systems and how they change through time, drawing inspiration from religious imagery and historical artefacts. It is a process in which I am concerned with the tactility of materials and surfaces: as the shells of things (as the representation or synthesis of material, function, meaning, time), but also the systems in themselves, as things connected, or as representation of thought.

Mirror - Metal, charred wood
Figurations (1,2,3) - Walnut, gypsum, resin, pigment
Tower - Wood, 18th-century cast iron church bell ...