Through moving image, text and audio Petra Lilja explores sugar with the starting point in the sugar beet as a historically important symbol of agriculture and industry in Scania, southern Sweden. The sugar archive started when she was asked to partake the exhibition Wanderlost in the town of Kristianstad. Her personal anchoring to the town being born and living there until the age of 13, and the fact that agriculture and sugar beet harvesting is only one generation away in her family, makes the foundation of the project. The research based material was then combined with the method of writing constrains in a series of word collages as well as image collages. The exhibition showed a movie and a printed material. All in Swedish.
Assistants: Kristin Elizabeth Løberg and Sara Sigurdardottir
Research and images captured in Scania and special thanks to Nordic Sugar Museum.
Sugar Archive movie shown at Wanderlost exhibition in Kristianstad in April 2017.
