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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 labour that incorporates multimodal forms of knowledge. 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
series of public walks
Photo: Rikke Ehlers Nilsson






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.

During Rodløs Festival a series of city walks exploring dark design, care and sleep in public space was hosted with guest speakers from workers in the homeless community.

The project was kindly supported by Blå Kors, Parasollen and Det Grønlandske Hus.


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