Gunnes Gård viking village, Upplands Väsby
Summer 2017
Sjöberg’s curiosity about older Scandinavian weaving techniques sparked a desire to work with a warp-weighted loom. To gain access to one, she took on the role of a Viking woman in the reconstructed Viking village Gunnes Gård in Upplands Väsby, where farm life of the late Iron Age is recreated. In the series of works BAD VIKING, Sjöberg explores the idea of reenactment. Historical reenactments stage the past through specific, fictional identities, shaped by clothing, language, actions, and social rules over a limited period of time.
Photo: Lo Vahlström