Santiago Mostyn works with films, instal­lations, performances and photography that test the divide between disparate cultural spheres, employing an intuitive process to engage with knowledge and history grounded equally in the body and the rational mind.

For the Biennial, Mostyn presents photographs in pub­lic space, taking us on narrative journeys along dispa­rate paths of migration and movement, from those who flee persecution to those who left to build a community through a sense of togetherness.

The photographs in the series New Jewel come from Zimbabwe and Grenada, both countries with a personal connection for Mostyn and parallel histories of revolu­tionary struggle. Revisiting these places, a generation later, Mostyn records quiet moments like the waste behind a house that produces chocolate in Grenada or three men praying in a small village church in Zimbabwe. Echoing these images are a group of photographs from the series Grass Widows made while searching for Amber Valley, an early 20th-century Black settler com­munity in northern Alberta, Canada. The photographic series All Most Heaven captures a community of young people searching for a sense of home and togetherness. Mostyn’s work is shown across public space in Borås, Vårgårda and Bollebygd giving us narratives of move­ment, time, fragility and longing.

Santiago Mostyn lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Recent solo exhibitions include: Your Shadow is a Mirror, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden (2021); Grass Widows, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada (2020); and Altarpiece, Institute Suédois, Paris, France (2019). Recent group exhibitions include: Luleå Biennial 2020: Time on Earth, Norrbot­ten, Sweden; the 12th Rencontres de Bamako – African Biennial of Photography, Mali; The Spectral Forest, Nida Art Center, Lithuania; and The Measure of All Things: On the (In)Human, Lunds Konsthall, Sweden.