Heidi Edström (b. 1990, Luleå) is a Stockholm-based performance and visual artist whose practice circles around the long-term investigation The Search for the Perfect Lump (2010–ongoing). The “lump” functions as an unruly muse, something that interrupts, complicates, swells, leaks or glitches. It might be illness. It might be a chewed piece of gum. Or a golden shimmer that turns out to be urine.
Heidi’s work unfolds across performance, installation, sound, sculpture and text. Often process-based and materially unstable, the pieces create warped environments where the border between the intimate and the alien begins to slip. Her recent projects have focused on health, critical self-care and bodily dysfunction — exploring the aesthetics of failure, the politics of wellness, and the myth of the pure or the perfect.
With a background in theatre and an ongoing love for dance, LARP and science fiction, she often draws from narrative forms that blur authorship, duration and character. Her work has been shown at venues such as Färgfabriken, Konstakademien, Kummelholmen and Detroit Stockholm. She is also an active member of the performance-punk band Kulturprofilerna, the artist-run platforms Best Before Collective and Fylkingen.