On the door, at the end of the alley, is an artwork called “Throwing leaves against machines” by the Swedish artist and visual activist, Vegan Flava. The narrow passage that leads to a door became the starting point for his piece. It expresses perishability but the main purpose was to question our culture’s norms and traditions.
Vegan Flava is active in Stockholm and describes his art as a direct action painting and is interested in engaging with spaces through his paintings. He grapples with the present times in his art and wants to portray a mutual co-existence of nature, animals, and humans. This results in poetic and melancholic pieces of skeleton and craniums in grayscale. The skeleton represents what is left after layers of the identity have been peeled off. The artist wants to illustrate the climate crisis, our shared existential crisis, and the culture that has driven us there.
His work today depicts how culture, norms, and identity affect the environment, the animals, and ourselves and he often criticizes our way of treating animals. The artist encourages us to choose our actions carefully. What we do today has an impact on the future we soon will have to face.