Astrid Svangren

In recent years, her art has successively expanded into the room and by placing objects in the exhibition space, she generates a dialogue between image and object. But she also focuses on the viewer, who is positioned in the midst of the work. The wood screen in the exhibition, inspired by the ascetic Shaker movement, serves as a physical marker, and as a contrast to the structural complexity of the paintings.

A closer study of Astrid Svangren’s pictorial world suggests that her images originate in dreams. Figures, naked and dressed, appear poetically, in various situations, in a painterly style varying from the exceedingly careful, small format, to the wildly, violent and aggressive. As viewers we are forced to find our own way into the image, to discover the diversity hidden therein, and to seek out the feelings we want to hold on to, and to explore them ourselves.

what I remember:
that I was hot with fear
a thin cloth
babble and a white collar
the maintaining of a condition
and all that I could not see

Curator: Magnus Jensner