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Simon Ferner: SLAGG<\/strong>
\nSven and Ellida Hjort\u2019s Stipend Exhibition <\/strong>
\n15 Feb\u201323 Mar 2025<\/strong>
\nVernissage: 14 Feb, 18.00\u201321.00<\/strong><\/p>\n

With the gaze turned towards the ground and the landscape, artist Simon Ferner explores how remnants of history testify to what has been neglected or forgotten. His exhibition SLAGG at Sk\u00e5nes konstf\u00f6rening revolves around LAMCO, a former industrial syndicate with ties to Limhamn, Lomma, and Gr\u00e4ngesberg. Ferner follows the traces of the companies\u2019 massive mining project and their colonial claims in Liberian Nimba, a region that, in the 1960s and 1970s, was one of the world’s largest iron ore producers.<\/p>\n

Ferner, who himself grew up in the aftermath of the Gr\u00e4ngesberg mine\u2019s closure, has over the years created an extensive archive of found materials from the different locations in Sweden and Liberia. Textiles, stones, poisoned plants, mining waste and images are assembled in the exhibition to create new connections and juxtapositions, allowing the different geographies to converge in a shared history. Here, the slag rises to the surface, shaping new stories that bear witness to both the memory and the future of the places.<\/p>\n

About the artist<\/strong>
\nSimon Ferner\u2019s artistic practice revolves around forgotten and hidden parts of our common history. Through research in archives, libraries and museum collections, he connects and maps unexplored stories together with site-specific investigations. His works raise questions about how these places bear their history and what traces remain today. Since 2020, he has been running Arkiv S, a collection of accounts of racist violence in Sweden, with a focus on the 1990s. Ferner studied at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and has previously exhibited at Vallentuna kulturhus, Lunds konsthall and St\u00e4llbergs Gruva, as well as in Malm\u00f6 with the project Antirasistisk Monument.<\/p>\n

About the stipend<\/strong>
\nThe Sven and Ellida Hjorts Exhibition Grant is awarded annually to an emerging artist from Sk\u00e5ne. The awarded artist is chosen by a jury appointed by the board of Sk\u00e5nes konstf\u00f6rening. The 2024 jury consisted of Sofia Persson (Plattform KC Syd), Roxana Kaboli (Form\/Design Center), and Ina Nian (artist). Previous recipients include Stacey de Voe, Matilda Tj\u00e4der, Cia Kanthi, Ikram Abdulkadir, LealVeileby and Hanni Kamaly.<\/p>\n

Curators: Albin Hillervik & Janneke Schoene<\/span><\/p>\n

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Simon Ferner: SLAGG Sven and Ellida Hjort\u2019s Stipend Exhibition 15 Feb\u201323 Mar 2025 Vernissage: 14 Feb, 18.00\u201321.00 With the gaze turned towards the ground and the landscape, artist Simon Ferner explores how remnants of history testify to what has been neglected or forgotten. His exhibition SLAGG at Sk\u00e5nes konstf\u00f6rening revolves around LAMCO, a former industrial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-utstallning"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["sv","en"],"languages":{"sv":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11313"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12218,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11313\/revisions\/12218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}