Utstilling: Sara Rønnbäck - Hur lockar på en varg

Hur man lockar på en Varg

Venue: Forhallen Tou
Dates: 29 October – 1 November 2026
Exhibition opening: Thursday, 29 October, 18:00 – 20:00
Opening Hours: Friday-Sunday, 12:00 – 16:00
Free admission

Sara Rönnbäck and Forhallen invite you to the performative installation
Hur man lockar på en Varg — a work consisting of an installation, a text, and a performance.
The performance lasts approximately 30 minutes and can be experienced in two versions:
with or without text (the text is in Swedish).
For the opening, the performance is open to an unlimited audience. However, space is
limited to 9 people per session for Saturday and Sunday.
To register for the performance on Saturday or Sunday, please submit your registration
here: https://forms.gle/JAGcip7JjdxZTcKh9

Drop-in for the performance is only possible subject to availability.

At other times, the work can be experienced as an installation and text.

Performance Schedule:
Thursday 29.October at 7 PM (without text unlimited audience)
Saturday 31.October at 12 PM (with text in Swedish 9 people)
Saturday 31.October at 1 PM (without text 9 people)
Sunday 1.November at 12 PM (with text in Swedish 9 people)

Artist Talk:
Sunday 1.November at 1 PM

Sara Rönnbäck works with a fluid practice, in which the choice of materials, form, thought, and action are shaped by the space and time she finds herself in. How to Call For the Wolf is a work about a space, a time, and a body in crisis. About the desire to resonate with the
world around us, and at the same time, the impossibility of knowing whether we are
actually experiencing the same thing. It is a work about grief, care, and trust. About the
relationship between the inner and outer world, the self and the collective, control and the
loss of it. And further, about the importance of movement in both body and mind to
achieve transformation. How do you call for the wolf? And why would you even want to?

The installation at Forhallen includes, among other things, papier-mâché wolf masks
based on a Pokémon Ball piñata made for her eldest son’s fifth birthday party. When the
broken piñata was left lying on the living room floor, Sara put it on her head and sang
Vargsången from Astrid Lindgren’s story Ronja Rövardotter to her youngest son. The round
cardboard shape created a resonating chamber that amplified the sound — both tones
and vibrations — which bounced off the walls and could be felt in the ears, throat, and
abdomen. Within the reduced space, the presence of the self was amplified while the
outside world was muted. A feeling of safety, yet also isolation, emerged.

A wood-fired clay wolf whistle with enough notes to play Vargsången. Wood-firing
ceramics is a choreography in which the body must actively participate, using air and fire
to drive moisture out of the material and transform clay into ceramics. The resulting
ceramic can then hold air, water, and fire.

A foot bath made from wood-fired clay — a mobile version of a wood-fired foot bath she
built in her garden last summer. For the foot bath, she has invited people to meet around
art as a starting point for reducing distances: between people, as well as between humans
and the world that surrounds us. To wash the feet of another is an act of care.