Welcome to a world where humans have stepped aside, making room for new inhabitants. Here, life continues—playful and curious—in a balance between adaptation, traces of the past, and the joy of the unexpected.
Within the exhibition space are species that have adopted traits from a bygone era: butterflies with tattooed wings; bumblebees and ladybirds that have learned to swim; spiders that collect lost shoes; and snails bearing tigers on their shells. Through mimicry, they draw inspiration from both human and natural worlds—in form, color, and behavior. Each species tells a story of creativity, cooperation, and the joy of discovery, while also reflecting nature’s cycles: life and death, change and adaptation.
As a visitor, you are invited to enter like a child in a museum—curious, unjudging, with open eyes for small wonders. The narrator moves between fictional fact and fairy tale, like wandering through an imagined natural history archive where language is free to play, dream, and surprise.
This is a world in which the Earth continues, where life finds new paths, and where beings and fauna coexist in a dreamlike utopia of form, color, and imagination. Human presence remains only as small traces—nothing more, nothing less.
The foundation of this world is shaped by the artist Fanny Schwarz, who holds a Master’s degree in Textile Art from HDK-Valand and works as both a textile artist and a tattooist. Through needle felting, she creates sculptures that grow into unexpected forms—soft and alive, as if caught mid-motion. The precision of the needle and the flow of craftsmanship, also central to tattooing, give each sculpture (and tattoo motif) its unique character. The result is works that exist in the present moment while opening up space for fantasy and interpretation, inviting the viewer to explore form, color, and human experience through a new, playful world.