Stories from Syria is told through chosen personal objects, reflecting a longing, an experience, a memory.
Client: Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm
Exhibition Graphics: Charlotte Ryberg
Interior/Scenography: Karin Ahlgren
Concept: Stories from Syria is told through chosen personal objects, reflecting a longing, an experience, a memory. There’s a duality here, the old home country of Syria, and the new home and identity here in Sweden. I wanted to manifest that duality, and expressed it through equally large, but mirroring texts in Swedish and Arabic.
Signs were mounted lightly on the walls, like opened pages of a book, telling their stories, or hung double-sided, with wire in mid air, like fleeting memories. All printed on high quality Colorplan Paper in 700gsm. No “regular”, too sleek “kapa”-signs. Inviting, open pages, inspiring the visitor to read the very personal shared stories.
Details to hang, mount and attach the typology of open pages were created.
We also created a large tree mural, where visitors could write their own stories on folded notes and hang them on the tree. How beautiful when the tree got dense with stories.
Stories presented in large scale signs like pages in a book. Duality in Syrian and Swedish identities and memories reflected in the mirroring pages. Here the intro sign. Material: Colorplan paper.
A closer study with a library or newsstand magazine feel. Open pages, more inviting into the stories than “regular” signs.
The personal stories are told through hanging signs above the chosen objects. Swedish on one side, Arabic on the other.
The tree was soon full…
Close-up of the hanging signs.
Wall mounted objects and their stories.
The visitors could write their own stories from Syria, and hang them on the wall, on the large scale tree illustration (a bespoke wallpaper).
