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1, 2 Alex Rosa, ‘Jag kombär från päärolandi’, textiles and recycled materials, 2021 Johannes Samuelsson, ‘Clothes line 3, room divider, at the former Brattby nursing home’, c-print, 2015
At Supermarket 2022 Gallery Verkligheten is exhibiting the artists Alex Rosa and Johannes Samuelsson. Alex Rosa is working around their Finnish-Swedish ostrobothnian roots. Growing up with agriculture has given them a close relationship to the soil and vegetation. The work circles around Rosa’s hard-working relatives’ history of being survivors of the many wars in Finland. Rosa’s own roots have been shaped and marked by this history both physically and mentally, and the influences are still present today. Johannes Samuelsson exhibits photographs from the ruins of Brattby Vårdhem, a former model facility for psychiatric care in Västerbotten. The work focuses on fragile details, investigating exposure in the new geography of inequality, where migrants and seasonal workers strive to create conditions for 64 a worthy life.
