Jenna Gillinger’s solo exhibition read the home as a structure of intimacy and control, and asked us all to spread awareness about violence in close relationships.
Some exhibitions are hard to walk through and impossible to forget. Home is where her horror is, the solo exhibition by Jenna Gillinger, opened on 5 February 2026 at Svartensgatan 10 and ran until 15 February.
Gillinger reads the home critically: a place of intimacy that is also a structure of control, private rooms shaped by social realities. Through spatial storytelling she examines the domestic sphere as a site of power, control and resistance.
Two works stayed with us. Text TV, a video installation, is built from authentic comments about women subjected to violence, collected from the media, from interrogations and from trials. Osynlig, or Invisible, hangs a transparent surface in the room to expose the invisibility of women: cross-stitch fastening as a tribute to the invisible artwork of women, and an alarming red to raise a warning finger. It is made of fully recycled acrylic plastic, steel pipe and nylon thread.
On 12 February Gillinger held an artist talk inside the exhibition, free for everyone who wanted to sit in the rooms she had built and hear her walk through them.
After the vernissage we wrote, in Swedish, the sentence that carries the whole project: together we spread knowledge and awareness about violence in close relationships. That is what this exhibition was for.
