HARD CANDY
Innocence Lost
The work
There was a shooting in a school toilet in Trångsund. Then an American teacher posted a video of her school's lockdown kit. It included lollipops. A child who is eating cannot scream.
I cast lollipops in glass and asked the police to help me shoot them to pieces with an air pistol. One lies on the cracked mirror it was shot against.
I was seven months pregnant when I made it.
The installation
Around the lollipops lie dismantled 3D-printed guns. A quiet argument with how weapons and gangster culture are made to look good, and how media and society make violence ordinary.
The video plays inside a handmade circus tent, a tragicomic show. The tent is the point: media sensation is a performance, and it reshapes how we see violence.
At the centre is a porcelain baby head filled with dripping red caramel, and a dead pink elephant. The sacrifices and the unease of bringing a child into a world like this. When the head breaks and spills, it becomes another lollipop: the same fragile sweetness with something sharp underneath.
The glass
| Year | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Materials | Cast glass, porcelain, mirror, air pistol |
| Object | A glass lollipop on a porcelain stick, cold-fused to the mirror it was shot against. The mirror stands about a centimetre off the floor on low feet, or hangs on a wall. |
| Shown at | What We Do Not See, Konstfack, 2024 |