Bio
Rebecca Stenfors (b. 2001, Sweden) is an artist, writer and filmmaker based in London with a Finnish-Swedish background. Her practice meditates on homecoming as a chosen fiction where narration, diary-keeping and oral storytelling traditions become processes of returning to that which is out of reach (both in time and in place). She is fascinated by the illusory proximity and connection of the souvenir, which informs her approach to writing sensitive narratives that ruminate on generational memory, what it means and how it might be passed down. As a way of finding the words for this, she works between writing, moving image and performance with each mode prompting ideas of absence, return, hope, attempts at restoration/preservation/retrieval, memory and time symmetry. Rebecca is interested in how it feels to be read to, and the tender relationship between narrator and listener, reader and witness.
Education
2020 – 2023 Goldsmiths, University of London
BA Fine Art
2023 HFBK, University of Fine Arts Hamburg
ASA Exchange
2019 – 2020 Central Saint Martins, UAL
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design
Screenings
2025
Untether (in conjunction with Deptford X), Mezzanine, London, UK
Wild Iris: Short Journey, St Peter’s Church, London, UK
Return of a Late Rhythm, Mezzanine, London, UK
Things Past, M2 Gallery, London, UK
Circling (with Tom Connell Wilson), Candid Arts Trust, London, UK
2023
Scoring the Silence, The Cinema Museum, London, UK
Unearthed, The Swiss Church, London, UK
2022
Fishtank, Penarth Centre, London, UK
Group exhibitions
2025
Artists’ Books for Listening (with Bureau for Listening), Bladr, Copenhagen, Denmark
Library for Listening (with Bureau for Listening), Struer Tracks Biennial for Sound and Listening, Struer, Denmark
Poohsticks, Rabbet Gallery, London, UK
2024
Intersections, Spectra, Kristinestad, Finland
Rift, Greatorex St, London, UK
2023
Missed Letters, Making Space, London, UK [curated by Alice Kim & Theobald Wilkin-Miralles]
Allodium, 28 Devonshire Road, London, UK [curated by Kit Reynolds]
Goldsmiths Undergraduate Degree Show, London, UK
A Mere Interlude, hARTslane, London, UK
The London Look, HFBK Annual Exhibition, Hamburg, Germany
2022
Visions of the Unseen, ArtHub Studios, London, UK
2020
Foundation Showcase, Central Saint Martins [online]
Painting Beyond Itself, BombFactory Foundation, London, UK
Publications
John Blund – Published by The Silent Academy, April 2024
Acierage – Published by Lily Petch, 2022
Readings
2025
Reader for performance of On Kawara’s One Million Years, David Zwirner, London, UK
2023
Reader for London, While I Wasn’t Looking by Mark Hudson [book launch], The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London, UK
Awards, Residencies & Other Programmes
2025
Spring Residency, Cove Park, Scotland
2024
Kristinestad Artist’s Residency, Finland
LUX Critical Forum, LUX, London, UK
Contact
rebeccastenfors@gmail.com
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