Artist John Skoog has premiered a new black-and-white feature film, 'Redoubt' (2025), starring Denis Lavant, and opened a concurrent exhibition at Moderna Museet in Malmö. The film follows a farmhand building an apocalyptic shelter, while the museum installation features the full-scale, fabricated bunker from the film's production.
The project explores the psychological landscape of preparing for catastrophe and the legacy of a real, folk-built structure in Skåne, Sweden. It connects contemporary anxieties to a tangible, enigmatic monument, examining the beliefs and labor behind such a creation and its enduring power as both architecture and art object.