Clara Aldén

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Clara Aldén


Pennygångens konsthall, 2026
 16.30, 2026
Parquet runes, 2024
Battery low, 2024
Ideas cannot be fossilized, 2023-26
The pocket archive, 2024
Play performance, 2024
The present will kill the past, 2024
Identity associates, 2022-25
Zorn reflection, 2023
Blood matters, 2022
Squaring the circle, 2022
Skin is a penetrable border, 2022
Skin is a penetrable border: audio essay, 2022
The mother of Frankenstein’s monster, 2021
The mother of Frankenstein’s monster: audio essay, 2021
We should now force ourselves to focus on dirt, 2020
Stain topography, 2020
Dirt and dignity, 2020
Exhibition, 2020
A parasite, 2018
Prima materia, 2017
Dirty laundry, 2016



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We should now force ourselves to focus on dirt, 2020

Essay film
Single-channel video, 05:13 min
Voice-over, soundtrack, and sound production by Agnes Aldén.

The text is composed of fragments from the book Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo by British anthropologist Mary Douglas

We Should Now Force Ourselves to Focus on Dirt is an essay film based on excerpts from Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo by the British anthropologist Mary Douglas. The book examines the relationship between dirt and taboo. In the film, excerpts from the text are edited together into a new text that reflects on dirt and systems of order in our modern homes.