Project
Stone and Stillness at Huddinge Hospital
Art at the New Adult Emergency Unit – Huddinge Hospital Area
Developed by Locum with Region Stockholm’s Cultural Administration, the new adult emergency unit at Karolinska Huddinge weaves art into care itself. In 2025, Yemisi Wilson’s stone sculptures found their place in the waiting room—silent companions offering quiet solace amid uncertainty. For Wilson, stone remembers; it carries history and the weight of time. Shaped by hand yet open to the viewer, her forms bridge care and contemplation. Here, art becomes architecture for breathing—a pause within the pulse of the hospital.
The central waiting room of the new adult emergency unit — a space designed for calm and care.
A group of sculptures by Yemisi Wilson installed in the waiting area includes Hippopotamus in bronze with black patina, three charcoal studies of primates, and a Seated Hippopotamus in concrete on marble. Alongside them, Old Love and Migrants in yellow Siena marble, and Elephant Head in Egyptian sandstone, continue Wilson’s dialogue between animal form, memory, and material.
In the small waiting room rests a seal. A seated person leans against its massive, protective body, texting on their mobile phone. Little did I know, when I made this piece in 2009 in Pietrasanta, that it would find its perfect and meaningful place here at Huddinge Emergency Ward…Perhaps especially this one — she sits there so sweetly, nestled in, comfortable and safe, maybe waiting too, just like the others in the room.
“To see my sculptures in this setting, at the hospital with the careful attention of the art consultant, the interior design and the carpenter who built the bases and the firm who installed them all safely in a way that they won’t move for years ahead, well that is a feeling hard to describe. ”
-Yemisi Wilson
