#gottsunda

Dom för kidnappning och utpressning. Fem män och två kvinnor har dömts för inblandning i en kidnappning i Uppsala den 29 juni–4 juli 2024. Ärendet är inte gängrelaterat. En sjuttonårig man trodde att han skulle gå på dejt med en ung kvinna i slutet av juni. Kvinnan lurade med honom till en parkeringsplats i centrala Uppsala. Där blev han indragen av flera personer i en skåpbil och fördes…

This is my exam work for my BA. Gottsunda - Orten som hembyggd. The project is about the Swedish suburbs i general. And Gottsunda in particular, the suburb I grew up in. It’s about the gap between the way people see their own home and the way it is looked at from outside. A way for me to challenge the stigma surrounding these types of places and to show my love for them. The project is based on stories I collected from people who live, or have lived, in Gottsunda. Stories I interpreted as clothes.

These photos are from the opening of the exibition and the last one is from the catalog. The film on the screen in the pictures is this one that Linnea Forslund helped me make https://vimeo.com/136425811

Summer project after year two of BA studies. In a way I was continuing the project I started when I made the Gottsunda pattern. I focused on concrete, as a symbol for the kind of place I grew up, even though there are actually more brick buildings there than concrete ones.