Saskia Holmkvist

Holmkvist´s practice is concerned with the limits of translation, drawing from forms of practice within the domain of translation in exploring how positions and interactions shape relations and historical trajectories. Her work combines aspects of ethnography and theatre to create films and performance that relate through past artworks, language, and political movements. This serves as a source from which she abstracts to speaks back through gestures, staged scenes, documentary elements into the newly mediated narrative memories which form the aesthetic and theoretical fabric of her practice. For over two decades Holmkvist has worked using video, performance, and text alongside new approaches to relational and oral archives that encompass critical listening, speculation, and performative translation. She has a particular focus on contemporary history, translation processes and ethics.