Open Studio Alert with AIR Emma Sandstrom
Thursday, October 24th 2024
6PM-9PM.
Emma Sandstrom is concluding a two-month residency at Popps Packing, where she has been developing an ongoing project about fossils, specifically ammonites. She has experimented with found materials and photographs, focusing on the myths surrounding ammonites before scientific explanations emerged.
Popps Packing has been privilegedto host many wonderful and thoughtful artists over the years, and Emma has truly been a gem. And we will miss her when she goes.
We invite you to join us for an intimate open studio gathering to meet the artist and celebrate her explorations and share thoughts and a glass of wine before she returns to Sweden. Special thanks to @kulturvastragotalandsregionen for their ongoing partnership and supporting Swedish artists to spend time, and make art on the Hamtramck Detroit Border.
Emma Sandström (b. 1986) is based in Gothenburg, Sweden. She holds an MFA in Photography from Valand Academy, Gothenburg (2020), and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Photography from Glasgow School of Art (2015). Emma works with photographic installations, combining sculpture and video. Her work explores archaeology, symbolism, and the relationship people have with place, both personal and historical. She is interested in how feelings, memory, and materiality are expressed and negotiated through inanimate objects, depending on context and ownership. Inspired by archaeological sites, museums, and private archives, she creates narratives that blur the lines between fiction and reality. Emma is also part of the artist duo Emma & Conti, collaborating with Italian artist Stefano Conti.