Opening: Severed Tongue / Now My Sails Are Burning

24/05/2025 11:00 - 15:00 Kungsbacka konsthall

Welcome to the opening of the summer exhibition at Kungsbacka Konsthall in collaboration with Art Inside Out

Severed Tongue, by Isak Eldh and Thomas Laurien, is about a scarred and neglected water landscape; Viskans ömning in Klosterfjorden. It recreates the memory of the place and is at the same time an act of care. Now My Sails Are Burning, by Henning Rehnström Ring, is also about memory, as well as grief and loss. With the help of the stone labyrinth on the Onsala peninsula, dramatic history is woven together with personal experiences of trauma.

The artworks are produced in connection to the Art Inside Out residencies Between the Rains (2022) and Other Choreographies, New Spaces (2021). The exhibition is part of the regional collaboration Vattenreflektionen – Halland 2025. Curator: Theodore Ågren.

Time: 11:00-15:00

Location: Kungsbacka Konsthall

More information

Time and location

When: May 24, 11:00–15:00 hr

Where: Kungsbacka konsthall

Program

11:00 hr, Doors open, mingle with snacks
13:00 hr, Opening with the artists on site
15:00 hr, Doors close

About the artists

Isak Eldh (b. 1972 in Gothenburg) is educated at the Valand School of Art, University of Gothenburg and currently lives and works in Sätila, Mark Municipality. Eldh’s art is physical, bodily and always exploratory. He works site-related and, often in collaboration with others, with music, sound, sculpture, installation and visual expressions.

Thomas Laurien (b. 1967 in Jönköping) works as a teacher and researcher at HDK-Valand at the University of Gothenburg. His artistic practice and the research projects he is part of – as well as his involvement in the Nature Culture Association Skimmer och härvor – focus on representation and rights for more than people and on relationship-building nature conservation.

Henning Rehnström Ring (b. 1987 in Västervik) is an artist, active in Stockholm, with a master’s degree in fine arts from Konstfack. He works with video, text, installation and performative walks – often in slow and place-based processes. Various forms of storytelling run like undercurrents in his work, where labyrinthine connections between place and memory, man and nature, life and death, are opened and closed.