As a firstborn daughter, Yemisi Wilson is named after both her grandmother Ebunola from Nigeria and her grandmother Anna from Sweden. They never met and lived very different lives, yet their genes share a place in their shared grandchildren. In the exhibition, Yemisi portrays and honours these two strong women who have been important to their families. She examines what it means to have roots from Nigeria, a country she has never visited, and roots in Sweden that are deeply rooted in both Värmland and Stockholm. 

Yemisi Wilson is a stonemason and sculptor who trained as a painter in Florence at the Accademia di Belli Arti, 1994-2000. She has worked as a sculptor in stone in Pietrasanta from 1999 to 2011, where she was a resident artist at Studio Sem. In 2012 she returned to Stockholm and now works from her studio in Vinterviken, often going on work trips to Italy, Spain, India and Älvdalen where she works in marble, alabaster, granite and porphyry.