Interweave is a large-scale interactive artwork about social and cultural interconnectivity and interdependence. Its starting point is a gift given to the United Nations – a Persian carpet into which is woven a 13th-century humanist poem by the poet Sa’adi. The poem describes humanity as a single body in which the fate of each person affects all others.
Weaving is one of humanity’s oldest crafts. Interweave brings the carpet’s motif into dialogue with textiles and patterns from the many countries of origin of Tensta’s inhabitants, treating each tradition as a thread carried by migration and rewoven into a collective sense of home.
Through playful audio-visual interaction, the artwork invites participants to become weavers themselves, their movements and gestures pulling separate patterns into a single, shifting design. The piece asks what it means to belong to one humanity: many origins, many threads, one fragile fabric of life.
Nobel Prize Facts
Organizations within the UN system and individuals working for the UN have received the Nobel Peace Prize on several occasions.
Among the laureates are the UN Peacekeeping Forces, UNICEF and UNHCR, as well as Dag Hammarskjöld.
NOBEL WEEK LIGHTS
5–13 December 2026 | 16:00–22:00
Stockholm City and Tensta
Sam Twidale
Artist and creative programmer Sam Twidale regularly collaborates with creative studios around the world to create artworks inspired by nature and human connections.
He is one half of the art duo Xenoangel alongside painter Marija Avramovic. Xenoangel creates art rooted in worldbuilding and storytelling, exploring human and non-human relationships.
Their multidisciplinary practice ranges from paintings and installations to writings and sound-based works, to realtime animations and video games.
Composer: Léo Crestel
Designer: Eloïse Gonin
NOBEL WEEK LIGHTS
A light art festival inspired by the Nobel Prize
5–13 December 2026 | Free admission