Hanna Råst, a weaver of memory and buried stories, sculpts absence and the unseen through image, text, and objects. Her works, imbued with ruins and compassion, delve into the archives of the past to illuminate the future. By blending research and creation, she invites the audience to reinvent reality and touch memory with their fingertips.
Hanna Råst (born 1986) is a visual artist working with lens-based media, text, and sculpture. Her work delves into themes of memory, trauma, and storytelling. Currently, she explores these subjects through the concepts of ruins, affect, and compassion. Often drawing from a range of archives—photographs, historical sites or narratives, and found objects—her practice reflects on the past's influence on the present and future.
In recent years, her creative process has intertwined artistic methods with research, showing a particular interest in archaeology, history, and psychology. Absence and the unseen play a crucial role in her work, as she strategically removes elements, inviting the viewer to fill in the gaps with their imagination.
Her latest works also incorporate performative and participatory elements, encouraging the audience to engage with memory in a tactile and physical way.