Söder: A Visual Narrative
Visual Essay

Completed in the context of the Introduction to Contemporary Art and Politics Course at HDK-Valand (2025)

This visual essay investigates how urban segregation in Helsingborg is produced through language, images, and recurring public narratives. Centered on Söder, the work assembles a layered “archive” of maps, historical references, aerial views, media headlines, opinion pieces, and field documentation to trace how boundaries are drawn—north vs. south, “complex” vs. “vulnerable”—and how stigmas become spatial facts over time. Through juxtaposition and recontextualization, it invites alternative ways of seeing Söder beyond dominant portrayals, foregrounding the aesthetic and affective politics embedded in visibility and absence.