April 24–26. HANDHELD / Sara Lindström Lindhe
HANDHELD is a choreographic installation that surrounds the visitor with video, bodies, sound, movement, and tactile sculptures. Drawing on a soft and malleable material, and unfolding through layers of association and imagination, the work invites the viewer into a reflective playground at the boundaries between body and matter, the living and the lifeless, play and seriousness.
The videos show hands kneading, pulling, exploring, and shaping the material, while sculptural bodies and traces fill the space. Living bodies move among the sculptures, creating relationships between material, space, and viewer.
The hand is the work’s recurring figure, both concrete and metaphorical. Through touch, an imaginary space opens up where the free, sometimes absurd logic of play meets the presence of seriousness. Here, a tension arises between sensation and expectation, where the hand functions as an exploratory tool that shifts perception, guides the gaze, and negotiates between the organic and the constructed.
As a visitor, you are free to move around, stand, sit, lie down and linger in the installation for as long as you like. The artwork welcomes both adults and children.
Friday April 24 at 6pm–9pm
Saturday April 25 at 6pm–9pm
Sunday April 26 at 2pm–6pm
Weld
Norrtullsgatan 7
Book at: book.weld.se
By: Sara Lindström Lindhe
Dancers: Ina Dokmo, Siriol Joyner & Helena Lambert
Supported by the Swedish Arts Council, in co-production with Weld.
SARA LINDSTRÖM LINDHE
is a Swedish choreographer and artist based in Stockholm. Her cross-disciplinary practice straddles the performing arts and contemporary art, combining performance, film, sound and installation. Her works often take the form of spatial choreographic installations and performative situations in which the body, choreography, materials and audiovisual elements interact. She combines a conceptual spirit of experimentation with playfulness and humour, and materials and objects function as extensions of the body, used to shift perception, presence and understanding. The works are characterised by a strong physicality and palpable presence, where materials and objects often possess their own energy and agency. In her art, Sara Lindström Lindhe explores humanity in relation to materials, space and non-human forms. Imagination and the theatrical space become central sites of inquiry, where the body’s possibilities and limits are tested and staged, whilst the works open up a collective, indirect conversation about who we are or wish to be. Through performative strategies such as disguise, fragmentation and a visual and gestural language that is at times grotesque or playfully absurd, the audience is often invited to participate actively and becomes part of the performative landscape.
Sara holds an MFA in Choreography from the Stockholm University of the Arts (2016–2018) and a BA from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London (2002–2005). Her work has been presented internationally at festivals, theatres, galleries, art centres, museums and public spaces, including Yorkshire Dance, Dansens Hus, Monty Theatre, Laban Theatre, The Place, Dance4, Skissernas Museum, Scenkonstmuseet, Norrtälje Konsthall, MDT and Weld. She has also produced several award-winning video works in co-production with SVT, shown both nationally and internationally. In autumn 2024, she held an artist residency at IASPIS with the Swedish Arts Council, which laid the foundation for the work HANDHELD.
Weld is supported by the City of Stockholm, the Swedish Arts Council and Region Stockholm.