The five-metre-high work draws its inspiration and material from a planned art museum, initiated by King Karl XIV Johan in the 1830s.
The museum never materialised, but hundreds of marble pieces were ordered and have since been stored.
Sosnowska used 11 of these original pieces, initially intended to adorn the museum’s façade and interior, and integrated them into six free-standing concrete structures, that were cast on site.
The installation is open and fragmented as if the non-existent museum were under construction or in ruins.
Prince Daniel, King Carl Gustaf's son-in-law, said during the unveiling ceremony that "the present is interwoven with the past" in Sosnowska’s sculpture.
The event was also attended by his wife, Crown Princess Victoria, the king’s elder daughter; their teenage daughter, Princess Estelle; as well as Sweden’s Culture Minister Parisa Liljestrand and the chargé d'affaires ad interim at the Polish embassy in Stockholm, Karolina Ostrzyniewska.
Sosnowska’s installation is located at the Princess Estelle Sculpture Park in the Royal Djurgården, which is one of the Swedish capital’s most popular recreation areas.
Born in 1972, Sosnowska studied at the University of the Arts in Poznań, western Poland.
She has gained international acclaim for her large-scale installations that challenge the boundaries between sculpture and architecture.
She represented Poland at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and her works have been shown at prestigious venues such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, London’s Serpentine Gallery and Hayward Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland, and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.
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