White Energy
White Energy is a video installation presented at StudyForArtPlatform, where the work was shown in a white cube context, detached from the industrial environment in which it was originally developed.
White Energy was originally created for the group exhibition Heat / Energy at Kummelholmen in 2021, taking its point of departure in the site’s history as an oil-fired hot water and energy facility supplying the surrounding area of Vårberg.
In the installation, the image of an energy flow was displaced — projected out of one wall and into another. Shown on a raw concrete surface in one of Kummelholmen’s coldest and darkest rooms, the work was surrounded by the lingering smell of oil and the physical memory of industrial production. The environment made visitors acutely aware of their own corporeality and dependence on energy, water, and heat. Questions of humanity’s role within nature emerged through this bodily awareness.
When later presented in StudyForArtPlatform’s white cube, stripped of historical and sensory context, the work shifted character. The experience became more intellectual than physical, raising questions about our increasing detachment from the material conditions that sustain us — and our tendency to forget that we remain inseparable from them.