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Singapore to Bjurholm | Sweden Residency 2025

VÄST PÅ FJÄLLET

https://www.vastpafjallet.se/

Venue: Karlsbäck 185, 916 92 Bjurholm, Sverige/Sweden

Exhibition Period: 28th June – 13th July 2025

Opening on 28th June 2025 (Saturday)

Press release

Singapore to Bjurholm – Bjurholm to Singapore

Published 30 June at 20:21 - Updated 01 July at 22:07

Residency Artists : Tan Yen Peng, Yeo Chee Kiong

Sara Meidell

sara.meidell@vk.se

“To come to a place, to stand aside, to make room for a new vision, this is how Yeo Chee Kiong explains his attitude as an artist in the world. He has brought his long-standing ongoing project Grey Serpent Series to Karlsbäck, which he has reborn here as a performance and installation with new fields of Norse mythology and rite, but above all by almost merging the grey knitted snake in the work with the local. Midsommarljuset will be the venue for the filmed performance that took place in Smitingen, Västernorrland, in mid-June, where seven dancers from the Härnösand-based NEFCD filled the snake in a free choreography on the rocks by the sea. To this is a newly composed composition by Patrik Grundström, the first take, the artist says, because there is only one first time for what will later begin to be manipulated.


True, and that is probably precisely why there is a need for new looks at both the midsummer light (and, a trust that what is said about it is really true, that there is enough to film in, in the middle of the night) and at precisely the manipulations of worldviews and self-images that humanity engages in to try to make itself and the world understandable – a survival instinct, But of course also a path to the abyss, which we are reminded of daily.”

Singapore Artists

WE ARE REBIRTHING IN THE BODY OF A GREY SERPENT NAMED JORMUNGANDR

WE ARE REBIRTHING IN THE BODY OF A GREY SERPENT NAMED JORMUNGANDR

WE ARE REBIRTHING IN THE BODY OF A GREY SERPENT NAMED JORMUNGANDR

Artist: Yeo Chee Kiong

Video

SITE-SPECIFIC INSTALLATION OF THE GREY SERPENT @ VÄST PÅ FJÄLLET

WE ARE REBIRTHING IN THE BODY OF A GREY SERPENT NAMED JORMUNGANDR

WE ARE REBIRTHING IN THE BODY OF A GREY SERPENT NAMED JORMUNGANDR

Artist: Yeo Chee Kiong

Artwork Images

Something Familiar – Västanfjället Through Xishan and Beyond

WE ARE REBIRTHING IN THE BODY OF A GREY SERPENT NAMED JORMUNGANDR

Something Familiar – Västanfjället Through Xishan and Beyond

Tan Yen Peng

Artwork Images

We are Rebirthing in the Body of a grey serpent named Jormungandr


    Yeo Chee Kiong

    "We are Rebirthing in the Body of A Grey Serpent named Jörmungandr" is a site-specific installation and performance developed during their stay in Sweden. As the most elaborate iteration of the ongoing Grey Serpent Series (initiated in 2013), this work reimagines Norse mythology through a contemporary, ritual-based practice—set in the northern Swedish forests at the height of midsummer.

    ​

    At the heart of the project is a hand-knitted, elongated sculptural form — the Grey Serpent — designed to accommodate up to seven participants. Functioning simultaneously as a physical structure and a performative site, the serpent becomes the vessel for a metaphorical rebirthing ritual. The artists collaborate with local practitioners, inviting them to interpret and animate the serpent through movement, presence, and improvisation.

    ​

    Exploring ideas of transformation, mythology, and embodied storytelling, the project culminates in a public presentation featuring video documentation, an evolving research archive, and selected works from previous chapters of the Serpent Series

    《我们重生於一条名叫耶梦加得的灰蛇身体里》

    我们为重生而蠕动着。

    仲夏的午夜,

    日光与月光交叠。

    哪里是神界(阿斯加德)和冥界(赫拉)之间,

    耶梦加得所处在的人间净土呢?

    "We are Rebirthing in the Body of A Grey Serpent named Jörmungandr"

    We wriggle for rebirth.

    At midnight in midsummer,

    Sunlight and moonlight intertwine.

    Where is the earthly utopia—

    between Asgard and Hel—

    where Jörmungandr dwells?

    SOMETHING FAMILIAR – VÄSTANFJÄLLET THROUGH XISHAN AND BEYOND

    Tan Yen Peng

    https://www.vastpafjallet.se/tanyenpeng


    Inspired by uncanny connections between travel photographs, childhood memories, and online archival images, Yen Peng’s works explore the resonance of "similar images," juxtaposing archival visuals that evoke a punctum beyond recognition. Drawing on Aby Warburg’s ideas of how images transcend time and space, she examines how disparate visuals converse across geography, memory, and history.


    For this site-specific exhibition at Väst på fjället in Västanfjället, Bjurholm municipality, Yen Peng reflects on shared experiences of loss and replacement. Her current home in Singapore, near the Xi Shan Primary School ("West Mountain"), connects with the exhibition site through their names and histories. These connections, rooted in her childhood memories and broader histories, are expressed through paired images—distinct yet uncannily similar—that create a dialogue between distant places and invite reflection on how separate histories converge.

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    Yen Peng embeds digital 'poor images'—low-resolution but accessible—into the hidden compartments of original school desks, revealed only when the surfaces are flipped open. This allows viewers to uncover and engage with these fragments of memory, rethinking the controlled access of the digital platform.

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    Video

    Filmed at the Smitingen Nature reserve, Härnösand, Sweden

    Video Clip: 

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mbwqt_X_0QjcL9uC-RqJSU8WJkqzPkKL/view?usp=sharing


    Performance and choreography by:


    Daniela Ruas Teixeira (Brazil)

    Eva Pletikosic (Slovenia)

    Genevieve Noonan (US)

    Homeira Haghighi (Iran)

    Julia Breuer-Labady (Hungary/Austria)

    Malina Fuhr (Germany)

    Sara Zoccola Marchand (France)

    Veranika Hnatsiuk (Belarus)


    Thank you to Danielle Dietz, Director of the New Education for Contemporary Dance, Härnösand (Sweden)


    Music by:

    “The Midgard Garden”, Patrik Grundström (Sweden)


    Special Thanks to Linnéa Therese Dimitriou (Sweden)


    The Little Rebirthing @ Härnösand (Sweden)

    Video Clip: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pIMBxiKkst4WLrU7Yx1XbZ0KSWQETRXU/view?usp=sharing


    Special Thanks to Myro and  Linnéa Therese Dimitriou (Sweden)


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