Nobody Forgets Nothing is an artistic research project exploring how sculpture and materiality can reveal hidden or repressed narratives in public space. The starting point is Lövholmen – Stockholm’s last remaining central industrial area – shaped by pigment production, textile mills, and cement factories, and carrying traces of both local working-class histories and global, colonial trade routes.
The project listens to the site’s silent archive – pigments, ruins, material residues – that hold stories of labour, violence, resilience, and movement. Through sculptural interventions, it investigates how the past lingers in the city’s surfaces and structures, and how art can give form to what has been forgotten, erased, or pushed aside.
The project asks: How can materials themselves carry stories of colonialism, labour, and resistance? How do global historical traces colour our contemporary urban spaces? And how can art listen to what remains unsaid – to the repressed, the returning?
Nobody Forgets Nothing is conducted in collaboration between Royal Institute of Art and Konstfack. The doctoral study is funded by the Knowledge Foundation. (2025–)