Toxibilities

Opening event
"Toxic Love" mapping/performance with Malte Ottosson and Bettina Schwalm at 14:00-16:00.

The exhibition explores the entanglements of toxicity, disrupted environments, and bodies within a more-than-human world. The title – a portmanteau of toxic and invisibilities-abilities invites reflection on how harmful substances and systems can simultaneously destroy and transform, often operating unnoticed while actively shaping new realities, relationships, and futures.

PARTICIPANTS
april forrest lin 林森
Cara Johnson
E.b. Itso
Elis Ottosson
Frida Hållander & Henny Linn Kjellberg
Harrie Liveart (Meri Linna & Saija Kassinen)
Katja Pettersson
Klara Gardtman
Liesbet Bussche
Martin Avila
Malin Uhlén
Sarah Nakiito
Sissi Westerberg
Tove Möller

Curation: Beatrice Brovia and Nicolas Cheng

The exhibition considers how we live with toxic conditions and how forms of becoming-with emerge within and beyond contaminated environments. Working across disciplinary boundaries, the participating artists, researchers, designers, and craft practitioners attend to the afterlives of extraction and industrial production. Their works engage with colonial histories, waste, environmental degradation, and possibilities for regeneration.

Toxibilities connects the local histories of the Dalsland region to broader geographies of pollution and resource extraction, tracing how these processes continue to unfold across time and place.

The exhibition project and publication is made possible with the kind support of Kulturrådet, Langmanska and Stiftelsen Stenebyskolan.