Skansen

Four Bearings
of Sweden

Future · record 04

Things from the Flood

Illustration and text by Simon Stålenhag

Stålenhag’s narrative art returns to an alternate Mälaröarna shaped by the Loop, a vast technological project and its aftermath. Familiar roads, houses and weather give the impossible machinery its weight. As the final bearing, the book asks how Sweden can be recognised after its landscape has been bent by speculative history. The work is visually led, but its unease grows from the ordinary scale of memory.

Creator
Simon Stålenhag · illustration and text
Publisher
Skybound Books
Published
7 July 2020
Format
Paper over board · English · 132 pages
ISBN-13
9781982150716

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