Archive stories is one part of several in the larger ongoing project, 325 000 sqm, about the allotment area, Torslanda havsbadskoloni, situated at the headland Skeppstadsholmen in Gothenburg harbour entrance.

In Archive Stories, I expand archive searches with oral stories I received through conversations and add my own photographs from the area. Working with the archive has become a way of talking to the place and increasing the understanding of a past time that exists in parallel with the present. The work is a mix of photographs from the archive, borrowed photos and own photographs taken during the project. The images are presented with texts that have their origin partly in the archive, letters, protocol books or newspaper articles, partly notes that I kept during personal meetings with different people who own allotment cottages in the area. Images and texts behave as free units, composed of a rhizomatic reading that looks both backwards and forwards, free to interpret. Archive stories also contains an underlying story about how the area has been affected by economic development over time.

The project as a whole will be completed in 2022

soon to be updated with images