whatever lives bends down
nabbteeri
20.2.-29.3.2026
Fikka
Galleria Fikka is hosting a single-channel version of the work whatever lives bends down. Originally it was realized as a large three-channel, multi-material installation in one of Stockholm’s konsthalles, Färgfabriken, in the autumn of 2023. Both the original exhibition and the miniature version on view now meander among concepts of garden, the exhaustion of a human animal, twigs, meadow care, dying, and other work. The structures of the video footage and the fragmentary text that intertwines with it are collage-like, or rather resemble a compost. Places, seasons, digital things and layers of language mix and ferment. Parasitism is a way of working and a philosophy of life.
Artist presentation
nabbteeri is a four-handed artist collective working with changing constellations of messy interactions between humans and other things. Alongside of borrowed or repurposed surplus materials, nabbteeri’s stratified, mesh-like works include 3D modelling or other crafts. They find handworking a tentacular and very species-typical human thinking tool.
By aligning the wasteland ways with the necropastoral state of mind nabbteeri tries to approach garden ethics and aesthetics that allow the site to retain its agencies and mysteries. Meanwhile they learn to find foothold, centring not themselves but others, letting go of control, using the parasite privileges to waste time recklessly, asking unproductive questions, thriving, decomposing.
The work of the artists has been supported by the Kone Foundation and the Alfred Kordelin Foundation.