horrid language

Meira Ahmemulic

12 okt 2024 – 12 jan 2025

Horrid Language is a solo exhibition by Meira Ahmemulić about the ravages of language and the potential of words to dissonance. Through text, film, sculpture and installation, the exhibition moves between different narratives, landscapes and forms of attention to political and aesthetic divides. With a language characterised by extraordinary literalness and symbolic ambiguities, Ahmemulić continues her work here to clarify the contradictions between language, memory and identity.

The exhibition is on display on the ground and third floors, and is curated by John Patrik Haggren and Daniel Ricardo Terres.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Meira Ahmemulić (b. 1974 in Halmstad, Sweden) is an artist and writer whose work relentlessly explores the complex intersections of language, identity and environment. Educated at Valand University of the Arts in Gothenburg and the Academy of Fine Arts in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Ahmemulić has established herself as a multifaceted artist with works that touch on issues of exile, memory, identity, national subject and language’s inherent contradiction of empowerment and subjugation. Her art has been exhibited at several important art institutions in Sweden such as Blå Stället in Angered, GIBCA (Gothenburg International Biennial of Contemporary Art), Göteborgs Konstmuseum and Moderna Museet. As an author, she has been published in prominent cultural magazines such as Ord&Bild, Glänta, OEI and Paletten.

ABOUT THE CURATORS

Daniel Terres and Patrik Haggren organised programme series, exhibitions and artistic interventions in public spaces under the Urban Konst project at Göteborgs Konsthall from 2017-2023. They were guest editors of the journal Ord&bild, no 3-4: 2021 on urbanity and the categorisations of the art field. Hemskpråket is their second exhibition at Havremagasinet Länskonsthall Boden and is part of their ongoing investigation of art’s reproduction of urban contradictions.