Bår, port, bädd
Stretcher, gate, bed

Iron is buried in the soil. Together with oxygen it creates red rust smelling of blood. 

Iron is buried in the body. It binds the oxygen to the blood from the first breath to the last one.

In the room there are three shapes that are all capable of holding a body: a stretcher of steel, a gate of rust and a bed of soil. A bag is resting in the stretcher. Use the bellows to provide it with oxygen.

(Materials: Steel sheets, rust, soil, cotton terry, cotton fabric, silicone, aluminium, iron oxide, steel.)

Maria K Olsson (b. 1993) is based in Umeå. She received a bachelor’s degree from the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts in 2021. Since 2020, she has been a member of the artist-run gallery Verkligheten. Olsson works with installations and performance based on the agency and interaction of human and non-human bodies. Time is always a factor in her art regardless of the form in which it is presented. The contrast between slow processes in natural environments and the rapid processes driven by man particularly interests her.