aghili/karlsson is an artist duo working in the field of performing and visual arts. Nasim Aghili is an artist, director and writer and Björn Karlsson is an artist and horticulturist and their work is often performed as a conversation around experiences of different kinds of exile and the need to mourn and heal.
aghili/karlsson was invited to Residence Botkyrka to develop a project in collaboration with school children in Botkyrka, taking the local neighbourhood forests as their point of departure for an explorative art project that was later presented as the exhibition Jangal at Botkyrka Konsthall.
Outside the Residence apartment on Krögarvägen 26, Björn Karlsson has created a small herb garden for the neighbourhood. The artist duo invites people to tea rituals that bring together collective processes, languages, and experiences, with the intention of creating new spaces for shared encounters.
Jangal
9 October, 2021 – 29 January, 2022
Botkyrka konsthall
The exhibition Jangal brings the plays and the rituals that are formed in the forests, into the art space and builds a story to listen to with your feet, and experience with your hands.
In Jangal, the artistically performed forest, we are moving along with the memories of the body. Here you will find fairy nests, a balance tree, climbing sculptures and huts that speaks in poetry. Here, we can imagine other worlds and relationships, beyond the reality where only human beings are at the centre of the world, exploiting the resources of nature.
The artist duo wish to bring the forest into the art space and art into the public space, as a beginning of a conversation on climate change, community and the power of the imagination to create something new together.
In Botkyrka Konsthall, the visitors are invited to a forest that is directly inspired by the duo’s collaboration with primary school children in Botkyrka.
Collaborating schools: Parkhemsskolan, Tullingebergsskolans förskoleklass, Eklidsskolan and Freinetsskolan Kastanjens förskoleklass. The project was supported by the Swedish Arts Council through Skapande Skola. Residence Botkyrka is supported by Botkyrkabyggen.