Codified Environments: Renderings of Public Space presents works by Johanna Gustafsson Fürst and Lucia Pagano in a three-day exhibition at Färgfabriken.

Codified Environments takes the public spaces of Stockholm as its departure point, reflecting on the overlapping categories of public and private in society’s common spaces. The exhibition explores points of connection between the practices of Johanna Gustafsson Fürst and Lucia Pagano, investigating their artistic strategies and how their working processes intersect with broader discourse on the public sphere(s) and democratic spaces.

Codified Environments presents a spatial negotiation between two artworks. The exhibition centres around Pagano’s experimental documentary short film Röda Linjen (The Red Line), filmed along the metro line from Ropsten to Norsborg. Gustafsson Fürst has created a new work for Codified Environments. The Eyes is a site- specific installation which operates as a gesture, responding to The Red Line, intervening spatially and visually with the audience’s experience.

The exhibition investigates the codified nature of space – exploring the importance of unprogrammed public spaces, examining everyday moments which hint at the codified languages of social interaction and the relation between individual and the communal. Through setting up a constellation between artworks, space and audience, Codified Environments questions what happens when behaviour – or the encounter with an artwork - shifts context.

Text: Jasmine Hinks

Exhibition with works by Johanna Gustafsson Fürst and Lucia Pagano, curated by Jasmine Hinks at Färgfabriken 14-16 November 2016

graphic design and layout by Freddie Egan.