PUBLIC RETREAT - on fire. 




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October 2024 /  Solo exhibition / Practice-based Research / Sound art / Text / Fire / Video / Spatial Installation / Architecture Triennale

Collaboration between Nicole Cecilie Bitsch Pedersen / Jo Mikkel Sjaastad Huse / Johanna Fager






We invite you to gather around the fire to eat marshmallows, drink hot cider and listen. Listen to the city, to its people, to its streetscapes

On July 31, 2021, the shut down carbonic acid factory in Lövholmen, Stockholm, began to burn. As with the stock exchange in Copenhagen and Notre Dame, questions arise: What happens now? And who gets to decide? Using alternative narratives and imaginary planning proposals, both realistic and absurd, we strive to negotiate about public space. To identify arguments within the larger topic of city development.

In a site-specific sound installation centered around the exhibition space’s view of the burnt carbonic acid factory, we aim to explore fire as a possible catalyst for change. What political, aesthetic, philosophical, metaphorical, architectural, historical and natural changes does it pave way for? Based on the project Nya Lövholmen – an artistic study of the redevelopment of the former industrial area in Stockholm, as well as an artistic citizen proposal, Public Retrreat has been invited to partake in the new Architecture Triennale at Färgfabriken – located in the middle of this developing area.





















All images and drawings ©PUBLIC RETRAT - Nicole Cecilie Bitsch Pedersen, Jo Mikkel Sjaastad Huse, Johanna Fager when not stated otherwise.












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