AIR 2017

Filippa Pettersson

Residency Duration: July – September 2017

Filippa Pettersson (b. 1987, Södermanland, Sweden) is currently living and working in Frankfurt am Main where she studied at the Städelschule from 2009 – 2015. Since then she has her own studio and works in the fields of installation, sculpture, sound and performance. Her works are built on narrative structures, either by using already existing stories or by making them up on her own.

In her three-month residency at Lostgens’ she worked intensely on the Malaysian’s ghost culture and its meaning for the present and future. Based on her research and comprehensive interview material, she constructed puppet-like sculptures and presented them in her exhibition entitled “Maranundak”, a fictional ritual from an imaginative religion under construction.

Kuala Lumpur Lostgens’ X Frankfurt Basis and Goethe Institut AIR Collaboration Project