The Shape of Mutual Life

An Exhibition by Sanna Fogelvik and Charlotta Hayes

13-23 November 2025

Detroit Stockholm

Eng

In the collaborative exhibition The Shape of Mutual Life, Sanna Fogelvik and Charlotta Hayes explore the life of trees and the enduring bond between human and forest. Through video, 3D animation, photographs, and prints, they invite viewers into the woods — a place of solace, adventure and continual transformation.

The forest is never still; death becomes renewal, decay becomes growth and time moves along a different scale. Every tree has its unique shape, molded from memories of persistent growth, of tearing rocks apart, binding soil and holding the world together. Each layer pulsing with adaptation, a living archive mirroring memory itself: ever-changing, yet timeless.

As humans we can immerse ourselves in the forest as a way to find connection with the nonhuman, and we can let it take us to another world through imagination and play. Our senses can inspire us to explore the overlapping worlds present in a forest. The exhibition touches upon both those spaces and lets them merge.

Swe 

I den gemensamma utställningen The Shape of Mutual Life utforskar Sanna Fogelvik och Charlotta Hayes trädens liv och det varaktiga bandet mellan människa och skog. Genom video, 3D-animationer, fotografier och tryck bjuder de in betraktaren i skogen – en plats för återhämtning, äventyr och ständig förvandling.

Skogen står aldrig stilla: död blir till nytt liv, förmultning blir till växtlighet, och tiden rör sig i en annan takt. Varje träds unika form bär med sig minnen ur ett kompromisslöst liv, av hur det krossat sten, bundit jorden och hållit samman världen. Varje lager vibrerar av anpassning; ett levande arkiv som speglar själva minnets väsen – tidlöst men oupphörligen föränderligt.

Som människor kan vi försjunka i skogen och skapa både en förbindelse till det icke-mänskliga och en plats där fantasi och lek tar oss till en annan värld. Våra sinnen kan inspirera oss att utforska de överlappande världar som finns i skogen. Utställningen rör sig i dessa rum och låter dem flyta samman.

Bios

Charlotta Hayes is a Stockholm-based artist interested in telling stories about the untold, the unseen and that which might have been, primarily through the media of photography, video and the written word. Her art practice explores the boundaries between reality and fiction, bringing to light the complexities of the human condition and our relationship to nature.

Sanna Fogelvik is a multidisciplinary artist and architect based in Stockholm. Their work explores emotional relationships between humans and the more-than-human world. Through 3D animation and experimental photography, Fogelvik looks at how imagination and matter overlap, guided by a sense of melancholy and wonder.

Vernissage:

Thursday 13 November: 18-22

Opening hours:

Fri 14/11: 12-19
Sat 15/11 - Sun 16/11: 12-16
Thurs 20/11 - Fri 21/11:12-19
Sat 22/11 - Sun 23/11: 12-1

And by appointment.

Address:

Detroit Stockholm

Roslagsgatan 21

11355 Stockholm

Contact:

Detroit Stockholm
mail@detroitstockholm.info