After Life: Mapping The Unknown is a collaboration between Fine Art students at Konstfack and MA Curating Art students at Stockholm University. The exhibition is developed in the context of a course initiated by Lina Selander for students at Konstfack.
The research and work leading up to the exhibition has been generously supported by the Swedish Museum of Natural History
and Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus.

Installation: Unn Faleide and Carina Hundsdahl
Photography: Sebastian Höglund

500 years of rain
Video loop 11:00 minutes projection on wall, slideshow 03:54 min on monitor, frames for screen printing

7,700 years ago Mount Mazama suffers a cataclysmic eruption that leads to it collapsing on itself and creating a crater. Hundreds of years of rain and snow turns the crater into a 594 meter deep lake, now known for its beautiful blue surface.

In January of 2024 I leave for an exchange semester in Oregon. One of my objectives is to visit the lake. Due to snow storms I can’t. 

I start to collect postcards and photographs from second-hand stores to get closer to it. I look for books about its history at the Multnomah County Central Library. I scan documents from 1880 and forwards. Books and booklets that were not allowed to leave the library. A story reveals itself and my idea about the lake shifts. The material decides which path the project goes. It turns out to be about Oregon’s history in relation to the place now called Crater Lake. About what is told. And what is not.