the flesh remembers

Accelerator (2025)

THE FLESH REMEMBERS is an intervention taking place in the staircase of Accelerator from the 30th of January to the 2nd of February 2025. The intervention unites the artistic practices of Sofie Alm Nordsveen, Aron Dahl and Lilian Steiner. For four days, THE FLESH REMEMBERS will transform the staircase into a swampy, slimy, and fleshy site to explore the skin and its intricate connection to identity, memory, and time. The event creates a conceptual bridge to Sin Wai Kin’s The Time of Our Lives, occupying Accelerator’s exhibition spaces, where transforming identity and the shedding of skin are intimately bound, each caught in a process of change.

On this occasion, a publication was created in collaboration with Elina Ulén, offering an archival and material interpretation of the curatorial concept of THE FLESH REMEMBERS. It serves as an extension for further exploration – an enduring body of work that lives on.

“The skin is the largest organ of the human body. It encapsulates our inner selves: our guts, blood, flesh, and bones, as well as our identities. Skin is porous, soft and flexible. At the same time, it is armour, an enfleshed barrier between the inner and outer world. It ages with us, wrinkles up, and loosens around our bones. Through the skin, we can trace the trajectory of our lives, from birth to death. Each year is marked by a new bruise, scar, wrinkle, rash or memory of a lover’s touch; skin holds memories of pleasure and pain. Our skin is in a continuous flux of shedding and renewing. It’s new and old, dead and alive, armour-like and soft. The skin is a liminal matter, filled with ambiguity. Our skin teaches us that the strongest border is permeable and soft; what moves in you also enters me.”


THE FLESH REMEMBERS is a collaborative project between the International Master’s Programme in Curating Art at Stockholm University and Accelerator. The project is co-curated by Elvira K. Wikman, Isa Van den Wouwer, and Unn Faleide.


Graphic design by Elina Ulén.
Images by Rickard Kårevall and Lanah Verbraeken.