Under Construction is an immersive exploration of transformation—drawing inspiration from the language of construction sites to reflect both the physical reshaping of the city and the quiet, persistent architecture of personal change. Through a curated interplay of metal, textiles, brick, and fiber, the exhibition captures a space in flux: part building site, part emotional landscape, suspended between demolition and creation.

Set against the backdrop of a city in constant motion—cranes rising, scaffolds shifting, sidewalks rerouted—the works echo this external evolution while gesturing inward. Steel vases stand like industrial artifacts, holding delicate flowers as offerings to the tension between progress and vulnerability. Tufted textiles stretch in matrix-like formations, resembling scaffolding or structural grids, their long yarn fibers hanging loose like frayed nerves or open possibilities. Raw edges are left untouched, bricks are stacked with intentional irregularity—every element an embrace of process over perfection.

Straight lines dominate the visual language—mirroring the rigid frameworks of urban planning—but they’re softened by the organic: the sway of a yarn strand, the curve of a steel form, the unexpected color of a bloom. The exhibition balances the mechanical and the handmade, the hard and the tender.

Under Construction is more than a study of material—it’s a meditation on what it means to build and be built. It reflects a city reshaping itself, yes—but also the internal scaffolding we erect as we yearn for change, for growth, for renewal. It invites visitors to inhabit the in-between, where the noise of machinery meets the stillness of introspection, and to find beauty in the mess of becoming.

This project was a collaboration between Rebecca Magyar & Agnes Åkervik. Exhibited at Teatergatan 5 March 2025.