Alva Roselius

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Alva Roselius is an artist and scenographer working with language and spatiality. Informed by architecture and theater and inspired by phenomenology, queer theory and political movements, her works revolve around power, desire and normality.

They circle around an ambivalent longing for alternatives, resistance and closeness. But also a longing for respite, to not have to resist. Alva is educated at Konstfack in Stockholm and UMPRUM in Prague. Besides her artistic practice she writes for Flamman and Arbetaren.

standing together

we have the strength

to reject

we have

the capacity

to unlearn

and the courage

to unbecome

we stand together

calling for equal rights

to failure

silence

and collapse

we are calling for failure

and collapse

deliver us

from

the expectations

for we can not

deliver us from

definition

for we are not

standing together

we are not

we are longing for

a time

when we won’t have

to choose

not to participate

when we won't have to choose

to not believe

we have

the courgage

to disbelieve

dismantle

and dismiss

we have

the courgage

to unbecome

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