CODIFIED ENVIRONMENTS: Renderings of Public Space

An exhibition with works by
Johanna Gustafsson Fürst & Lucia Pagano
Curated by Jasmine Hinks

Vernissage: 14 nov. 17:30 – 20:00
**Artists’ Talk 18.30**
Free entrance. All welcome!

Exhibition Open:
14 nov. 17:30 – 20:00
15 nov. 10:00 – 14:00
16 nov. 10:00 – 16:00

Codified Environments: Renderings of Public Space presents works by Johanna Gustafsson Fürst and Lucia Pagano in a three-day exhibition at Färgfabriken.

Codified Environments takes the public spaces of Stockholm as its departure point, reflecting on the overlapping categories of public and private in society’s common spaces.

The exhibition explores points of connection between the practices of Johanna Gustafsson Fürst and Lucia Pagano, investigating their artistic strategies and how their working processes intersect with broader discourse on the public sphere(s) and democratic spaces.

Codified Environments presents a spatial negotiation between two artworks. The exhibition centres around Pagano’s 2016 experimental documentary short film ’Röda Linjen’ (2016), filmed along the metro line from Ropsten to Norsborg.

Gustafsson Fürst has created a new work for Codified Environments, a site-specific installation which operates as a gesture, responding to the screening of ’Röda Linjen’ at Färgfabriken, intervening spatially and visually with the audience’s experience.

The exhibition investigates the codified nature of space – exploring the importance of unprogrammed public spaces, examining everyday moments which hint at the codified languages of social interaction and the relation between individual and the communal. Through setting up a constellation between artworks, space and audience, Codified Environments questions what happens when behaviour – or the encounter with an artwork – shifts context.

This project has been curated by Jasmine Hinks, and is a student degree project within the International Master programme in Curating Art at Stockholm University.