NAMAK – Cariz Nordlöf

Vernissage: 2 April at 17-19
Short performance at 17:15.

NAMAK (Eng. Salt) is an installation showcased at the Accelerator’s rooftop pool. It is a collaboration between Accelerator, Curating Art students Ruoxi Gao and Noël Platts, Graphic Design student Maja Godek and the Fine Art student Cariz Nordlöf.

Iran's longest river, Karun, is suffering from severe environmental degradation. Industries and agriculture on non-fertile soil have led to increased salinization of the river. Nordlöf uses the corrosive properties of salt as a way to manipulate aluminium pieces. With saltiness, the work seeks to draw a connection to our memories of salt and thirst.

Set in Accelerator's rooftop pool the artwork occupies a space once filled by water emphasising the impact of its depletion. Salt plays a central role in NAMAK; it evokes memories of thirst and highlights the fragility of a body, which becomes more vulnerable by prolonged exposure to contamination. The saltiness of NAMAK parallels the concerns addressed in Goldin+Senneby's exhibition Flare-Up at Accelerator, which explores autoimmune diseases, biochemical imbalance and the fragility of a body.

Cariz Nordlöf (b.1992, Uppsala) is in her final year of the Bachelor of Arts programme at Konstfack. Themes of water, earth, grief, memories and time travel are recurring in her practice, which is primarily expressed in sculpture, sound and performance.