Alberto Rossi, Lars Dyrendom, Tina Umer
Acts of Containment
25 July 2025 - 16 August 2025
The exhibition Acts of Containment examines how private gardens and lawns in suburban and urban landscapes, have evolved from spaces of leisure to controlled environments shaped by technology and consumerism. The exhibited works questions what it means to manage a landscape and how our reliance on technological solutions both empowers and restricts us.
Alberto Rossi (b. 1994, Italy)
Alberto Rossi is a multimedia artist based in Göteborg. His artistic practice observes the intersections between the biological and cultural realms, often inspired by the urban environment. He primarily works with digital images, analog collages, serial works, notes, and book-making. In 2022, he founded Take 10 Press, a collective and itinerant photo-zine library based in Göteborg. Alberto holds an MA in Photography from HDK-Valand and a BA in Multimedia Arts from IUAV University of Venice.
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Robotic "species" in Alberto’s work invoke a strange sense of lifelikeness - machines imbued with a personality through human affections, forming emotional ties with them. The humor lies in the absurdity of this dynamic, while the eerie undertones highlight the consequences of our reliance on technology to mediate our connection with nature. Playfulness, too, finds a central role, counterbalancing the rigidity of control.
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Lars Dyrendom (b. 1981, Thisted, Denmark)
Lars Dyrendom is a Gothenburg-based artist whose practice spans photography, archives, and print-based media. He holds two Master’s degree from the University of Gothenburg: in Photography (2020) and Visual Archives (2011). In recent years, he has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Konsthall Nord (Denmark), Verksmiðjan á Hjalteyri (Iceland), Galleri Duerr (Sweden), and in 2024 at Circulation(s) Festival, Paris.
With a deep interest in printed matter, he regularly produces books and zines that reflect on social patterns, memory, and suburban culture.
Lars Dyrendom’s trampolines symbolize childhood joy but also critique social conformity and materialism. They serve as metaphors for suburban aspirations, where happiness is precariously tied to performance and material possessions.
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Tina Umer (b. 1991, Koper, Slovenia)
Tina Umer is a visual artist working across photography, textile, and publishing. Based in Gothenburg, she holds an MA in Photography from Valand Academy (SE) and a BA in Visual Communication from ALUO, Ljubljana (SI). Her work reflects on human-modified environments—urban, digital, and agricultural—interrogating systems of classification, profit, and control. She explores how objects of mass production, consumption, and resale shape our everyday surroundings and collective future.
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Tina’s Dutch Wilderness explores human reshaping of fauna, while originating from the Dutch suburbia, it can address universal themes: human intervention, ecological strain, and biodiversity loss. In the work Grass Closeups this is presented through the production and imitation of the very building block of the perfect block of grass; now bought in a hardware store or digitally generated for the perfect image of a listed property.