2026

A Locus
Coloured pencil, watercolour and graphite on paper
21 × 29.7 cm

I was commissioned by Tecknaruppropet to contribute to Historien om Sverige: Tidötiden, and for the publication I made A Locus.

The book brings together nearly one hundred artists and illustrators reflecting on the Tidö government’s four years in power. It is the first in a planned series of election year publications examining each Swedish government’s term in office through drawing, illustration and political commentary.

In A Locus, I bring together a nuthatch, barbed wire and a nazar. The nuthatch moves across a geographical area that includes both Syria and Sweden. The barbed wire refers to borders, control and obstructed movement, while the nazar carries associations with protection and the anticipation of danger.

The work comes from my ongoing interest in symbolism and in how artists and people develop ways of communicating under censorship, political violence and restricted freedom of expression.

I was also interviewed for the publication about symbolism, censorship, memory and migration, and how these questions have shaped my artistic practice.