Time Machine
Benhuset
Muskot artist group:
Jonas Ellerström – writer, translator, publisher, musician
Martin Ålund – artist, curator, musician
Clara Diesen – poet, director, artist
Torbjörn Johansson – artist, curator, director of Kummelholmen
Daniela Hedman – artist
Malin Arnedotter Bengtsson – artist
Time Machine is a collective installation created for the unique architectural space of Benhuset. For Muskot, the group behind the exhibition, it was essential to begin with the site itself—drawing inspiration directly from the room in order to address the notion of time.
Time evokes movement and imagination: the idea of traveling backward to encounter one’s younger self, or forward into a utopian or dystopian future. A central premise of the work is that temporal experience is subjective. Time may pass quickly or slowly depending on situation and perception. It is existential rather than a strictly physical phenomenon, and memory itself borders on fiction.
The installation functions as both a lookout toward all times and a place for inward reflection. It is a spatial experience that invites visitors to slow down and become participants in a shared temporal ritual shaped by the room and the collective work. Time Machine unfolds as a labyrinth of time, composed of moving temporal elements, dynamic traces of events, and moments of stolen time.
As a collective, Muskot works through a shared process in which each step contains the seed of the next. The group has previously acted as curators for the large-scale exhibition Isolation | Communication at Färgfabriken (2020), and later presented One-Day Creatures at Villagatan, bringing together individual works. In Time Machine, the focus shifts to a fully collective work, merging diverse materials and artistic disciplines into a single installation.