Solen, Rosen och Källan
Permanent installation, Korallen – Centre for Sensory Stimulation, Stockholm
Solen, Rosen och Källan is a spatial installation conceived as an immersive environment rather than a single object. The work unfolds as an entire room and functions as an introduction to Korallen’s sensory spaces — a threshold between everyday orientation and imaginative experience.
My practice is rooted in painting, color, and light as tools for visual and bodily thinking. I work from the material itself, the specific spatial conditions, and the presence of the viewer. Over many years, through exhibitions and public commissions, I have investigated color’s relationship not only to vision but also to touch, movement, and spatial orientation. I am interested in extending color beyond surface — treating it as material, medium, and lived experience.
In public works, I employ durable, low-maintenance materials while retaining a sense of intimacy, fantasy, and openness. The artwork and its surrounding environment are conceived as a unified whole, carrying a shared presence rather than existing as separate entities. Each project begins with the specific conditions of the site and the people who inhabit it.
At Korallen, a centre dedicated to sensory stimulation, the installation responds directly to its context. The room combines textiles, photographs, video, painted fabric, and a luminous, color-changing floor positioned between a mirrored wall and hanging textiles. The floor allows visitors to actively alter its color, shifting the atmosphere of the space. Reflections extend the room visually, while layers of material create a rhythm between stillness and movement.
In one section, physical textiles meet photographic representations of the same fabrics. Embedded video fragments animate the surface — a sudden passage of soap bubbles appears, carrying the viewer through a sequence of distant landscapes before gently returning them to the room itself. The space oscillates between presence and projection, grounding and imagination.
Solen, Rosen och Källan was so integral to the life of Korallen that it was given a dedicated room when the centre relocated from Rosenlund to Sabbatsberg Hospital. The work functions as a meeting place: a place to pause, to orient oneself, and to transition — both physically and mentally.
My experience working in healthcare environments and centres for sensory stimulation has shown how art can support well-being, offering moments of calm, curiosity, and embodied engagement. This installation is conceived as a scenographic environment — visible and inviting from a distance, yet increasingly detailed and intimate up close — where light, color, and material invite the visitor into a shared space of perception.