Project:
Borderline(s) - stories from the border
Year:
2020-2022
Overview
The project ”Borderline (s)” is an artistic investigation of the closed borders between Jämtland (Sweden) and Trøndelag (Norway). The border between Norway and Sweden has not been guarded and closed since World War II. Suddenly, in 2020, there were police, military, and home guards at the border. Theres K Agdler moved along and across the border between Jämtland and Trøndelag, by ski, on foot, and by car, and document the border crossings artistically. She examined what a border really is (the border as a geographical, physical, and psychological place). Agdler used a mixture of physical examination, artistic work, and artistic research to investigate the project’s themes.
Border Still Life, 2022
Installation. Fabric broom with pattern report of technical pile drawings from the Land Survey’s border review in 1985, tray table with reminiscences from different performances. Stethoscope, water from the Skiljevattnet, photograph, bath ring, eraser, paint flakes, stones, tent cord wound up on a twig, and dried flowers. Installation view from the exhibition”BORDERLINE(S) - Stories from the border” in Järpen, Jämtland 2022.
Size: 2200 x 2000 x 750 mm
Stakeout 2, 2022
Fictitious surveillance image from the border. Digital photograph mounted on Dibond.
Size: 500 x 700mm
