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The video work ‘Approaching a Ghost’ selected as the Swedish contribution in Artists' Film International 2021.
The work will be screened in art institutions on almost all contintinents and finally be presented at Bonniers Konsthall.

Screenings:
Ballroom Marfa, Texas USA | Belgrade Culture Centre, Serbia | Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm | Center for Contemporary Art, Afghanistan (CCAA) | Contemporary Art Center (CAC), Vilnius | Crawford Art Gallery, Cork Ireland | Friends of IZIKO South African National Gallery, Cape Town South Africa | Foundation Proa, Buenos Aires Argentina | GAMeC, Bergamo Italy | Hammer Museum, Los Angeles USA | Istanbul Modern, Turkey | KWM artcenter, Beijing China | MMAG Foundation, Amman Jordan | Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia |
Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Polan | NBK, Berlin Germany | Para Site, Hong Kong | Project 88, Mumbai India | Tromsö Kunstforening,  Norway | Whitechapel Gallery, London UK


Our eyes see through the darkness of the soil
seven years of guests passing by had erased the memory of us
I have aged, I can see it when I compare myself to the girls
I didn’t realize when it happened
I didn’t see the years passing by


In my memory, the city had become a deserted place
people had disappeared
left was only roads, buildings and vegetation
in the empty city, Meril and I were also there
beyond the city close to the hospital was the tidal land


I am scared of the moment when this film is finished
then the story about us is told
I have to leave fiction and enter the present
one could see this as our birthplace 


The hotel has aged
a container holding our stories
the hotel has aged
I know what happened in these rooms


I came here to look for you but you weren’t here anymore
a container holding our stories
the hotel has aged
I can’t find myself


There are no ghosts
there is no magic
no monsters or dreams are visible
instead they are at a distance


In this actual room my friend Meril lived
this is a photograph of her 


I have come close to something I can’t handle
as I lie murdered beneath the ground
how many of our eyes are down there now
could I be dissolved?
the clothes she wore and the body is gone
here amongst the dead there is time for rest
I feel stupid for thinking I could travel in time
the clothes she wore and the body is gone


this is a forgotten place
that takes care of itself
the city can only be heard as a murmur far away


I couldn’t reconstruct my memory
I couldn’t communicate my vision to the film team
I feel like you could appear at any moment
even though I know it is impossible

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