Isn’t shopping and art viewing the best combo? That’s what Acne Studios believes anyway. With their new art installation by Angolan artist Sandra Poulson, we can during the holiday shopping also view some installation work.

Titled ‘If the Equator Shifts 90o, Does It Go from a Border to a Highway, or maybe to a Footpath?’ The global brand shares the installation in their Stockholm flagship store at Norrmalmstorg.

The work is comprised of Acne Studios’ scarf styles Vesta, Canada, and Vernon, a wool scarf is reimagined. Instead taking the form of Luandan palm tree leaves juxtaposed against the backdrop of a cold Stockholm climate where tropical trees do not grow. It’s described in a press release to ‘’explores the political, cultural, and socio-economic landscape of Angola, Poulson’s country, using a variety of materials including fabric, concrete, aluminium, jesmonite and wood.’’

The artist often returns to lived experiences in Luanda, where Poulson splits her time, as central case studies in her work. The artist herself says this “The work is interested in challenging the meaning of movements of value and currencies. While reflecting upon the framework of coloniality that enables value calculations to be often based on geographies, and north proximity,” says Poulson in a press release. The art work is soft and you almost want to touch it to see how it feels, which of course is not allowed sine it's an installation. 

Sandra Poulson’s installation is on show at Acne Studios Norrmalmstorg from 17th November to 12th December 2022, perfect for the holiday season.