//When I Crack I Expand

Solo Show at Borås Konstmuseum 09.12.2023-21.04.2024

This exhibition focuses on a fragmented aesthetic and explores it conceptually. The artworks have strong connections to both complex philosophical and psychological perspectives of the world, taking the viewer on a journey through the vast landscapes of existence, where human fragility meets the infinity of the universe.

The title of the exhibition is shared with a piece that encapsulates the concept. It is a bronze sculpture with a broken form representing a female body standing on its hands. The body resembles a landscape or a fragmented map, consisting equally of the voids formed and the solid cast material, in this case bronze. It is in the cracks that the essential emerges, the insight that cracking is simultaneously expanding. Expansion occurs in the gaps, allowing something else to seep in; the movement goes in multiple directions, marking the power of transformation. A visual metaphor for breaking apart internally, reassembling oneself anew, with the understanding that in the shift that has occurred, one can never be exactly the same again. The cracks become portals that offer the opportunity to simultaneously experience multiple dimensions or layers: the external world, the physical body, and the possibility of getting a glimpse into an inner room, intimate and personal.

Another figure given a central place in her creation is the horse. Since childhood, I’ve created a strong affinity with this powerful creature. The horse's physique is associated with muscle mass, strength, and energy, representing the movement so tangible in a physically powerful way.

Despite sometimes having stripped and clinically sounding expressions, the works are at the same time transmitting a highly poetic and existential force. The contrasting aesthetics create an interesting dynamic, manifesting in the union of the artificial and organic, the powerful and fragile, in silence and inherent activity. The fragmented expression explores and embodies questions about an unstoppable movement forward, the constant transformation and change of everything—interconnected on both an external and internal level.

Photos by: Henrik Zeitler and Carl-Michael Herlöfsson