This is how we continue, 2025

A two-channel video (6 min), a community archive, and an installation with printed banners, archival images, a newspaper (offset print), and a laser print on mirror.

This Is How We Continue is an artistic reactivation of the community mural Bigger Than You Think in Husby, Stockholm, created in 2015 together with over 200 residents. Ten years later, I return to the mural not only as someone who helped initiate it, but as an artist seeking to reactivate its layered stories—those remembered, those forgotten, and those still unfolding. The project unfolds in three interconnected parts: an experimental two-channel film, a site-specific audio guide, and a conceptual archive. Through poetic narration, fictional elements, and interviews with residents, the work engages with memory as something living and in motion rather than fixed in time. It draws on theories of microhistory and collective memory, but grounds them in lived experiences: whispers, fragments, and everyday conversations that rarely enter official archives. At its core, the work asks how public art can act as a living archive, shaped through care and community engagement. It resists singular narratives, instead presenting memory as a process of dialogue, reflection, and transformation. The project has already been presented in my MFA degree exhibition at Konstfack (2025), where the film and archive installation were shown, and will be exhibited at Fotografiska Stockholm (October 2025) and at Uppsala Art Museum (November 2025) as part of a grant presentation. For me, this project is also personal: it emerges from growing up in Husby, from my background as a cultural social worker, and from my diasporic experience of belonging to communities whose stories are often under-documented. By blending collective voices with artistic interpretation, I aim to create spaces where memory is not only preserved but reimagined—less as storage, and more as care, transfer, and a shared language.