Exhibitions & projects
In the old transformer station, energy has returned, glass is growing again, it's blooming! The exhibition is part of the Småland Biennale.
Everything that goes out of time forms the foundation for what comes next. The exhibition From the Ashes visualizes the cyclical aspects of sustainability, where the industrial history of the Glass Kingdom is united with the people who have worked and are working with glass, the craftsmanship and artistic creativity that Småland embodies. From the ashes grows the new, the future that we can only just sense, but is characterized by new thoughts about the "green" and sustainable. That which is to be managed and that which is to be given space to emerge.
In the transformer station, one is met by a landscape and vegetation made of glass. Plants that have found their way into the abandoned room from the outside and taken root, taken over, or reclaimed. The landscape is modular and each plant consists of several parts, or "blobs" of glass that can be assembled and disassembled. The modular nature as a nod to the industrial history of glassmaking and a representation of the people who have been and are part of the cultural history of Småland and Boda.
Mim Westberg-Johannesson is a ceramist and political scientist educated at, among other places, Capellagården in Öland. The exhibition From the Ashes is the result of The Glass Factory's Open Call in spring 2023. The ambition was to increase interest in glass as a material for artistic expressions and strengthen the local art scene. The location of the exhibition, Boda's old transformer station, was predetermined along with the theme of sustainability.
