”The everyday imposes its monotony. It is the invariable constant of the variations it envelops. The days follow one after another and resemble one another, and yet - here lies the contradiction at the heart of everydayness - everything changes.”
From Henri Lefvebres essay ”The Everyday and Everydayness” 1987
House, Garden and So Forth Beyond was filmed between the summer of 2021 and 2022 in the house and garden that belonged to my grandparents Sture and Reetta. A single camera placed on furnitures, flower boards and the ground documents the ebb and flow of everyday encounters between generations, internal and external events, still and active life, intimacy and loss, without a hierarchy in-between.
This visual setting of “the flow of time” during a one year time frame is accompanied by sounds from the films mainly disconnected from the images; The radios disparate tableau, fragments from conversations and environmental sounds. The captions is a montage from transcriptions of our voices, milieu and descriptions from a manual regarding Super-8 screening.
The installation was built in a newly emptied storage room for tech equipment at the Royal Institute of Art. I was interested to work in a space with its own personal traces, like if caught in an in-between - about to move in or out? I covered parts of the floor with a paper often used during renovations, and placed a soft carpet on another part for its domestic and welcoming quality along with garden chairs. In the back of the space I built an installation with props from my grandparents home, as well with objects from the original space. Here I placed a screen with the sibling piece Ljusår that consits of my grandfathers Super-8 recordings viewed from the monitor of a Vu-Editor, while its beeing scrolled through. The main film was projected on four connected screens covered in thin cotton, letting the construction shine through and the image to bleed out and reflect the surfaces behind and above it.
Camera & Editing Sofia Romberg
Super - 8 Sture Romberg
Text Animation Rahul Gunnarsson
Sound Design Jon Lennblad & Sofia Romberg
Special thanks to my professor Ming Wong & the input from the student group of performance in the expanded field at the Royal Institut of Art during this process, aswell the awing technical support from Caio Marques De Oliveira and Astrid Braide Eriksson <3
