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Theres K Agdler is an artist and writer based in Östersund, Sweden.
Her artistic work revolves around questions of the periphery and the centre and how resources are distributed nationally and globally. She works with research-based site-specific investigations using photography, film, installation, sculpture, performance, sound and text. Theres K Agdler studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Trondheim, Norway and at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. She has a Master's degree in Fine Art from HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg.


Artist statement

Selfportrait at the border, 2021
My artistic work revolves around issues of periphery and centre, how resources are distributed, both nationally and globally. How people affect places and how places affect people. I work research-based, with site-specific investigations that are then artistically shaped through the use of performance, film, photography, installation, sound, and text. In recent years, I have worked on several longer art projects: “Stones travelling” (2019 - ongoing), “ Borderline (s) - Stories from the border” (2020 - 2022) and “BROTTET - the quarry / crime (2023 - 2024). The art project “BROTTET- the quarry/crime” studies the effects of industrialisation and colonialisation of North Sweden. Now I am working on the art project “Vår Strålande Framtid - Our Radiant Future”. The project focuses on Green Colonialism, the extraction of natural resources for the Green Transition and its implications for both people and the environment. It is also about the discussion to allow uranium mining and build new nuclear power plants in Sweden. I do this by “digging down” in specific places, but the ambition is that my artistic excavations also have significance for other places and communities. In the context of exhibitions, I visualise these issues through artistic experiences and imagination.
Artist statement

Selfportrait at the border, 2021
My artistic work revolves around issues of periphery and centre, how resources are distributed, both nationally and globally. How people affect places and how places affect people. I work research-based, with site-specific investigations that are then artistically shaped through the use of performance, film, photography, installation, sound, and text. In recent years, I have worked on several longer art projects: “Stones travelling” (2019 - ongoing), “ Borderline (s) - Stories from the border” (2020 - 2022) and “BROTTET - the quarry / crime (2023 - 2024). The art project “BROTTET- the quarry/crime” studies the effects of industrialisation and colonialisation of North Sweden. Now I am working on the art project “Vår Strålande Framtid - Our Radiant Future”. The project focuses on Green Colonialism, the extraction of natural resources for the Green Transition and its implications for both people and the environment. It is also about the discussion to allow uranium mining and build new nuclear power plants in Sweden. I do this by “digging down” in specific places, but the ambition is that my artistic excavations also have significance for other places and communities. In the context of exhibitions, I visualise these issues through artistic experiences and imagination.
Artist statement

Selfportrait at the border, 2021
My artistic work revolves around issues of periphery and centre, how resources are distributed, both nationally and globally. How people affect places and how places affect people. I work research-based, with site-specific investigations that are then artistically shaped through the use of performance, film, photography, installation, sound, and text. In recent years, I have worked on several longer art projects: “Stones travelling” (2019 - ongoing), “ Borderline (s) - Stories from the border” (2020 - 2022) and “BROTTET - the quarry / crime (2023 - 2024). The art project “BROTTET- the quarry/crime” studies the effects of industrialisation and colonialisation of North Sweden. Now I am working on the art project “Vår Strålande Framtid - Our Radiant Future”. The project focuses on Green Colonialism, the extraction of natural resources for the Green Transition and its implications for both people and the environment. It is also about the discussion to allow uranium mining and build new nuclear power plants in Sweden. I do this by “digging down” in specific places, but the ambition is that my artistic excavations also have significance for other places and communities. In the context of exhibitions, I visualise these issues through artistic experiences and imagination.

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