Skansen

Four Bearings
of Sweden

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Why these four directions?

National identity becomes less tidy when read at different scales. This issue moves from a philosophy of the home to the attention demanded by farm work, then to a contemporary Sámi story and finally to a painted alternate Sweden. The contrast matters more than a claim to completeness.

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