Resa
Örnsköldsvik Travel Centre, Sweden, 2015
Commissioned by Örnsköldsvik Municipality
Public work / integrated spatial installation
looped video (60 × 60 seconds), silicon-laminated glass prints, stainless steel, light
Resa is a site-specific public artwork developed for the entire Örnsköldsvik Travel Centre. The work unfolds across the building as a whole—entrance hall, bus terminal, train platforms, and the large public spaces connecting them—forming a continuous spatial experience for travelers in motion.
The travel centre is a place of arrival and departure, of waiting and transition. Visitors of different ages, backgrounds, and cultures pass through the building at different rhythms: arriving, leaving, waiting, returning. Time becomes a central material—delayed time, anticipated time, displaced time—interwoven with the physical movement of bodies through space.
At the heart of the building, in the main entrance hall, two illuminated spirals of stainless steel slowly rise through the air volume. Mounted along the spirals are circular glass discs laminated with reflective, light-dispersing foil. These elements catch and refract daylight and artificial light, casting shifting spectral reflections across walls and ceiling. The spirals act as spatial anchors, visible from a distance yet continuously changing with light, movement, and time of day.
A large circular video projection, approximately 1.2 meters in diameter, is suspended within the connecting bridge between the entrance hall and the train platforms. The projection consists of a one-hour loop composed of sixty one-minute sequences—earth, air, water, fire, and travel—repeating on the hour and functioning as a spatial clock within the building.
From each minute of the video, a single still image is extracted. These images are presented as silicon-laminated glass prints, all in circular format: twenty located in the bus terminal, twenty in the entrance hall, and twenty along the waiting areas and platform connections. Together, the moving image and the stills create a rhythm between motion and pause, flow and fixation.
Through light, reflection, movement, and repetition, Resa invites the visitor into a perceptual experience of travel itself—not only as physical displacement, but as a temporal and sensorial condition. The work remains open and variable, offering new visual constellations with every passage through the space.