E C O N T A I N E R, 2011 -
Mobile workspace and gallery
Nyberg took part in the Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA) exhibition with a sociopolitically analytical project which resulted in the architectural work Econtainer (2011). The project explored the issues of land privatization and often over-romanticized relationships to nature. The Econtainer has since 2012 become part of the Mustarinda Associations Artist in Residence program where it is used as a mid-forest base for artists and researchers.
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Econtainer / Korpo
One of the greatest challenges for the local community is to find work that supports life all year round in the archipelago. Artist Sandra Nyberg, who lives in the biggest town of the Turku archipelago herself, addresses this question with a focus on the distance between home and work. Nyberg created a mobile gallery and workspace, which she placed in a remote part of the islands.
Every morning for a month she traveled to her gallery and spent the eight-hour working day in the middle of nature only to return in the evenings back to her home in Pargas at the urban edge of the archipelago. During the process she drew the same tree - a for the area typical small pine tree - over and over again. The results of the process - the drawings themselves as well as a glossy "coffeetable book" containing the drawings - were presented to the audience in the mobile gallery during the exhibition.
Mobile workspace and gallery
Nyberg took part in the Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA) exhibition with a sociopolitically analytical project which resulted in the architectural work Econtainer (2011). The project explored the issues of land privatization and often over-romanticized relationships to nature. The Econtainer has since 2012 become part of the Mustarinda Associations Artist in Residence program where it is used as a mid-forest base for artists and researchers.
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Econtainer / Korpo
One of the greatest challenges for the local community is to find work that supports life all year round in the archipelago. Artist Sandra Nyberg, who lives in the biggest town of the Turku archipelago herself, addresses this question with a focus on the distance between home and work. Nyberg created a mobile gallery and workspace, which she placed in a remote part of the islands.
Every morning for a month she traveled to her gallery and spent the eight-hour working day in the middle of nature only to return in the evenings back to her home in Pargas at the urban edge of the archipelago. During the process she drew the same tree - a for the area typical small pine tree - over and over again. The results of the process - the drawings themselves as well as a glossy "coffeetable book" containing the drawings - were presented to the audience in the mobile gallery during the exhibition.
