Relational gravity distorts time, but I keep running.

Name: Relational gravity distorts time, but I keep running.
Start: 2026-05-29T17:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-05-29T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Roslagsgatan 21, 11355 Stockholm, Sweden

Schedule

Fri May 29 2026 at 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Roslagsgatan 21, 11355 Stockholm, Sweden | Stockholm, ST

Welcome to Farshid Nasrabadi's exhibition, "Relational gravity distorts time, but I keep running."
Exhibition opening Thursday, May 21st between 18.00 and 22.00
Exhibition runs from 2026.05.23 - 2026.06.05
Wednesday to Friday 17:00 - 19:00
Saturday and Sunday 14:00 -17:00
Also open by appointment.
Running on a higher-gravity planet requires significantly more energy to lift body weight, making movement slow and exhausting. Every step feels like carrying an immense weight, dramatically increasing strain on bones, muscles, and the cardiovascular system.
Key Physiological Effects:
Locomotion Challenges: At only 2-3g, moving is difficult; at much higher levels, you would be unable to stand. Muscles would work significantly harder, making casual walking feel like climbing a mountain.
Cardiovascular Strain: The heart must work much harder to pump blood against gravity.
Musculoskeletal Stress: The risk of fractures and severe muscle strain increases tenfold.
Injury Risk: Falling is more dangerous and potentially fatal.
Human Survival Limits: Researchers estimate that, with extreme training, humans might withstand up to 4.5g-5g, but higher levels are fatal.
Relational gravity distorts time, but I keep running. is a photographic installation that brings to light the feelings of confusion and losing one’s foothold in life as an immigrant, a foreigner, and an outsider in Swedish society.
The work takes a metaphorical point of view, using traffic signs that are covered for temporary construction work in the city as the starting point. The guiding signs that exist but are veiled, and the more they are followed, the more they add up to these inner feelings.
This exhibition is part of an ongoing exploration of belonging and un-belonging, and the state of being in-between. Not here, nor there, seeking and not finding, finding and losing, and the
constant seeking movement through the city. The installation takes the viewer through these images, leaving room for personal takes on the feelings they evoke, and proceeds to the deeper, darker space, where an audio-visual work plays the sounds of Iran, Sweden, and all that is in-between.
Welcome to the show.
Artist Bio:
Farshid is a Stockholm-based photographer with a background in architecture, working at the intersection of photography, space, and socio-political contexts. Having moved from Iran to Sweden six years ago, his work explores themes of displacement, the Iranian diaspora, and human encounters.
He experiments with photography’s materiality to deepen ways of seeing, focusing on analog photography to explore its slower, more deliberate approach. Lived experience and a fascination with people shape Farshid’s practice. He has worked oncollaborative artistic projects that combine photography, film, and sound, exploring their interplay.
His work has been exhibited at Malmö Konstmuseum, Copenhagen Photo Festival, Analog Art Photography Gallery in Leipzig, Prospekt Gallery, Copenhagen Architecture Festival, and the Venice Biennale, among others.