In the 1970s and 80s Sweden, along with many other countries in the world, went through a shift in political narration. The stories that so far had shaped the idea of the Swedish national identity, the welfare state, the democratic workers movement started to leak in the face of crisis. Nathalie Gabrielsson’s exhibition The Campaign at Index investigates these ideological behaviors that came to effectively re-tell the story of the Swedish social model.
This podcast shares the audio from the video work titled The Whistelblower. A big vertical screen, similar to the ones carrying the stories of companies and campaigns in public space, here contains a man. He is well dressed in his mid 50s, standing comfortably talking to you through the leans. His name is Sven Grassman, he is the national economist who went public after spotting inconsistencies and false statistics produces through the network that in the exhibition is traced together as The Campaign.
