Sara Rossling is a guest curator of ArtConnect's Artists to Watch ‘22

Sara Rossling is an independent curator and writer based between Malmö and Stockholm, working with exhibitions, research-based projects, public art and residencies. With a Posthuman Feminist perspective, she engages in artistic responses to societal issues, sustainability, care and decolonial processes.

Educated with an MA in Curating Art, International Master’s Programme, and a BA in Art History, both from Stockholm University, Rossling has curated exhibitions at various venues in Sweden and internationally and has run projects based on artistic research. In addition, she has worked as a project manager at Iaspis Sweden, as curator assistant at The Public Art Agency Sweden and as an exhibition producer at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Currently, Rossling is the chairman of the Nordic Art Association (NKF) in Stockholm and is pursuing postmaster studies in Decolonizing Architecture at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.

Alter-Blomsteralfabet 07.07.2018–17.08.2018 was an exhibition taking place in five shop windows that together form Galleri Se Konst at a street corner in central Falun, Sweden, where the nordic neo-Nazi movement has a strong base. All windows were filled from top to bottom with printed textiles by artist Marc Handelman, creating an opaque draped surrounding curtain wall of vivid colors (derived from floral pigmentation) and detailed patterns. The curtains connote a domestic place, reminding us of the intersection and ongoing conflict between the private and the public sphere. When stepping closer towards the transparent glass, sharp letters in several fonts, including blackletter and a runic-like alphabet (that neo-Nazi movements uses) begin to formulate the essay For Opacity, in Poetics of Relation (1990), where Édouard Glissant conveys the power of Opacity in identity, in relation to transparency. Moving beyond a necessary notion of "difference," Opacity is offered as a further resistance to the reductive forms of assimilation that seek to make identities transparent, graspable, and measurable to "an ideal scale."

UNDER SKIN 12.12.2019–20.12.2019 was a solo exhibition with artist Marcia Kure at Rutiga Golvet, Royal Institute of Art Stockholm. The show examined the dialectics between productive power within communities and the fine mesh of sovereign power structures, like biopower, shaping our living conditions, penetrating our bodies, under the skin. In the exhibition, Kure manifested and abstracted power as activity and relationship. And gave the immaterial a visual expression, yet a fluid and transient one – material becomes body, and body becomes material. On top of the rigid grid floor, central to the room, a group of amorphous sculptures inspired by the power figure boli from Bamana culture were placed. The sculptures are physical experiments made of fabrics, hair extensions and various layered and unusually combined materials constituting their bodies.

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