Isabel Löfgren (b. 1975) is an artist, researcher, and Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications, as well as the head of the Culture & Communication within EcoJust at Södertörn University.
Her practice explores memory, space, and belonging through art, media, and teaching. In her research, she focuses on media and art activism, social movements, visual politics, and artistic methods.
In 2011 Isabel Löfgren began working on her artistic research project The Satellite City through Residence Botkyrka’s programme. A site-specific and participatory project that investigated the relation between transnational media, art and hospitality in the suburbs through the numerous satellite dishes that covered the buildings’ facades on Krögarvägen in Fittja. Through the project Isabel met with several families in the neighbourhood, to discuss the importance of the TV in the daily life, and in exchange the apartment’s satellite dish got a neon-coloured covered the brightened up the residential street.
Mångkulturellt centrum, Verdandi and Botkyrkabyggen.