We are proud to present Coulisse artist Sara Sjöbäck’s solo exhibition ‘Förlåt’ at Sjöbo konsthall. A homecoming to the place she grew up in and left, the exhibition deals with a longing and guilt over wanting to be free but at the same time belong. A kind of alienation and introversion where she processes the feeling of growing apart from her hometown and the struggle to maintain her identity. In Sjöbäck’s installations, parallels to the auto industry and the car culture that strongly characterized her upbringing are noticeable, but also the longing for the city, neon lights and speed where the bus became a symbol of freedom. Sara Sjöbäck (b. Sweden, 1988) is an artist who lives and works between Malmö and Stockholm. She graduated with an MFA from the Royal College of Art, London in 2019. Hailing from a small industrial town in southern Sweden, Sjöbäck’s work interrogates industrial materials’ functionality and emotional charge. Learning to use mechanical tools from an early age through her father’s mechanical shop, Sjöbäck took these processes and techniques from him and his peers and made them her own. She finds distinctive forms of expression and narration and creates new stories with metal, glass, and neon while exploring themes of gender, origin, heritage, and culture. The materials are broken, folded, and mended in a physically exhaustive and labor-intensive process, finally taking on a new shape and meaning. Sjöbäcks process often begins on a small scale with personal anecdotes and experiences, resulting in large installations and works commissioned for public spaces around Sweden. @sjobokonsthall @sarasjoback Photographed by @david_neman