Eight-channel sound installation traveling through 3D-printed speakers.
Total duration: 23 min.
Sculptures, various dimensions. 


“ah, in this stanza, I sigh for you (remake)“ is a series of nine dream poems in electronic trumpet-shaped sculptures that radiate dreams of those who migrated to Sweden in the 60s and 90s, many with socialist aspirations. The work builds upon the artist’s research at the Public Art Agency Sweden’s extensive archive of prints from 1960– 1990, specifically the dream poems that were part of the exhibition “Suddenly It Happens!” (2023).

People of different ages and backgrounds have read the dream poems in the work to give voice to various migratory experiences of unrealized socialist utopia by both the people who directly migrated and the ones who inherited those dreams. For this exhibition, they were also recorded in Farsi and English to voice an even more comprehensive range of languages, hence experiences.

For many migrant groups, music is a way to stay in touch with their roots. The poems are accompanied by various pieces by the Iranian trumpeter Manouchehr Biglari and composer Fariborz Lachini, where the speed of the original music has been slowed down and altered by the artist.

The shapes of the 3D-printed sculptures are inspired by horns associated with postal offices. This connection stems partly from the fact that many prints in the Public Art Agency Archive once hung in such spaces but also because the sculptures embody messages that never fully arrived. They are like suitcases filled with dreams—encapsulated breaths—still waiting to come home. Like ghosts, they echo through Röda Sten Konsthall. The trumpet shape becomes a symbol of how something as vital, mundane, and invisible as breathing can, through a simple sigh, offer relief.