The Time gives form to life in a women’s prison. It portrays daily routines, the labour of packing DVD discs, the constant queuing, and the arbitrary rules that shape inmates’ lives in minute detail. How is the time experienced in an isolated place defined by close surveillance and control?And who do you become, when everything that forms you as an individual – your clothes, your name and, most of all, your freedom – is taken away?

Färingsöanstalten is a Class 2 prison for women, located on an island outside Stockholm. A short distance from the prison stands a turquoise bus shelter. Those who use the bus stop are almost exclusively staff or visitors to Färingsö Prison or to Svartsjö Prison, the men’s prison situated a few hundred meters away. The images in The Time were filmed in the area around the bus stop. Filming in the immediate vicinity of the prison is not permitted.

The original work consists of two parts. The film is one part and the other part is a replica of the turquoise bus shelter (scale 1:1).