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alex/alexandra sofie jönsson


is a socially engaged artist working with queer, eco-feminist and pedagogical formats, exploring how artistic practice can become a site for collective work. Often working in response to institutional spaces and contexts, and often collaborating with communities as part of their practice.

They have previously shown work at Art Center Nabi, Lewisham Hospital, Tate Modern, Kunsthal NORD and Roskilde Festival. They are one of the co-founders of lím collective, a platform based in Aalborg exploring artistic practices at the intersections of health and care, and a former organiser of Goldsmiths University collective The Open System Association, Autonomous Tech Fetish (ATF), and The Body Recovery Unit.


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Sleep BEK 1094




Sleep BEK 1094
 Kunsthal NORD
installation
Photo: Niels Fabæk




The project "SØVN under BEK 1094" (2021) is a set of ten embroidered duvet covers and five pillow covers created in collaboration with employees and guests at two shelters in Aalborg Parasollen and Tamatta. The project highlights the social and personal consequences of the recent legislation criminalising homelessness (executive order no. 1094 of 29/06/2020) through the embroidered statements and fragments from conversations about sleep, legislation and homelessness that citizens with homeless experience have contributed to the work during the pop-up studios at the shelters.  In tandem with this legislation which affords the Danish authorities greater powers to sanction people who sleep or stay together in public spaces,  "dark design", such as benches with armrests in the middle or narrow and sloping benches that repel the body are on the rise.

In the period 14.12.2021-27.02.2022, the work was exhibited as a public bedroom at Nordkraft as a part of the group exhibition WORK/place at Kunsthal Nord.

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