Residency at La Cité des Arts de La Réunion, funded by EU/Goethe Institute’s Culture Moves Europe program and La Cité. The works, created during a 2024 residency at La Cité des Arts de La Réunion, include sculptural objects (Codebreakers) and an interdisciplinary performance, where the sculptures perform alongside a local dancer in a site-specific improvisational piece. Sculptures were realized through co-creation with local materials and plastic waste, emphasizing the agency of non-human entities and the material process itself.

Örebro län AiR International fully funded residency program, inviting 6 contemporary artists, craftsmen and designers, with an interest in working within an orientation towards art in public space. The hosting sites has all a unique environment and history, spanning from the old mining site in Stripa, the historical Frövifors paper mill museum and the cultural heritage village of Nora. As an artist in residency in Stripa mining site, Marina Jacob focused on the agency of iron as element the bonds connecting it with the people in the region. The project grew in a constant dialog with the Stripa Gruva as a unique venue unrivaled in its richness and complexity on one hand, and with the local people on the other. Metal workers, librarians, managers and local storytellers are the originators of this project.

Photos: Robin Åhlgren