"The Cartography of the Body" ‑ new art exhibition at the library
Gaskelaante, an area in the western Jämtland mountains where Medstugan's property is also located, forms the starting point for the new art exhibition "The Cartography of the Body". Gaskelaante is South Sami and means the middle land or the land in between.
Behind the exhibition, which will be on display in the library at Campus Östersund from Monday 2 September, is the artist Malin Ståhl.
"The Cartography of the Body" is part of a multi-year project that deals with settler colonialism, gaze and responsibility. In the exhibition at Campus Östersund, the map is in focus; The drawn map as a means of power and the right to define a place and the map that is carried in the body and landscape.
"When I stayed at Medstugan estate in 2018, there was exhaustive material about the property's history that began in 1896, but a complete silence about the Sami history at the site. It became so clear there and then and in that place, how one-sided a history writing can be done. It was there and then that I began this multi-year project on invisibility and responsibility, in the knowledge that artistic work can shed light on these processes and make visible the structures of silence," says Malin Ståhl.
The exhibition, which is shown in the cube, runs until 31 December.