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Wildflower Tales
Film & Installation
06:30 min loop

2024-





In the 1960s and 70s a demolition frenzy took place in Stockholm wiping out large parts of the city center. This was a time with social and urban transformation en masse. Conflicting visions about a future in plural.

Suburbs grew up at the outskirts where everyday life would play out. In Vårberg, two human made mountains were placed, designed to resemble an amphi theatre. They were built of the demolishing material from houses, blocks and blowouts from the expanding subway system. Its nickname became The Vårberg Dump. The soil that covered the massive piles came from many directions. A flora that was versatile originated with time. Just like the area itself where people from over a hundred nationalities live.



Wildflower Tales is shot with 16 mm film during a summer on the mountains and processed by hand with flowers and plants from the filmed locations. A document of short scenes with landscapes, flowers, family and friends in simple poses sweeps by.

A common quote from the urban planners in the 60s was the aim to create a new city for the new man. Decades later here we are, man and nature still caught in-between opposing forces in a milieu both created and suppressed. It’s a wildflower, is a flower, is a flower.



Camera Vladyslav Kamenskyy
Plant developing / editing / sound Sofia Romberg
Scanning Mutascan Service, Helsinki
Installation view from Galleri Mejan Discarded dance carpet from the Royal Opera, 1970s
Vases borrowed from Dramaten, wilted flowers from Vårberg.

Photo Jean - Baptiste Béranger