Ink on paper, tapestry, yarn, wood, string, plastic, moss, lave
What does it mean to know a place? How does a place know you? Lisa Nyberg’s installation proposes a depiction of landscape not as a fixed image, but as a site of affective, historical and material relations. At its core are twenty-two drawings that carry the traces of the artist conversations with family and villagers in Mårtensliden, her mother’s homestead in South Sápmi. Soft shades of colours, annotations, sketches of objects and people, record continuous patterns of migration and entangled histories that complicate one’s origin story in times of settler colonialism.
The installation draws from geological mapping traditions, where land is understood through stratas of time, movement, and transformation. Domestic rugs (rana) collected by the artist form a five-meter tapestry, extending onto the floor, while yarn, moss, roots, plastic from the site entwine with the drawings, unfolding and unraveling the landscape at the same time.
First exhibited at Bildmuseet, Ubmeje/Umeå, as part of the exibition Art and Truth-Telling, curated by Anca Rujoiu and Anneli Bäckman in a collaboration between Bildmuseet and Gaaltije Saemien Museume.
