The Lake performance
26th March 2022
KvibergsStallgårdar 2
Group show ... och skuggorn, 2021
Gallery Backlund, Göteborg
I utställningen ...och skuggorna presenteras verk av sju samtida konstnärer. I skilda material och med olika utgångspunkter förenas de genom arbetet med fragment – fysiska och mentala.
Exhibiting Artists:
Karin Karinson
Sara Västerlund
Zehra Ay
Maja Kristin Nylander
Karin Gissberg
Anja Fredell
Kimzonite
Karin Karinson
Sara Västerlund
Zehra Ay
Maja Kristin Nylander
Karin Gissberg
Anja Fredell
Kimzonite
Left, photos by: Maja Kristin Nylander. Right, sculpture by Kimzonite.
I Kimzonites konst står det sinnliga i centrum och hon arbetar med olika typer av material som konnoterar kroppslighet och femininitet.
I sina skulpturala verk använder hon sig ofta av återbruk och skapar assemblage av material som inte vanligtvis kopplas samman med konst. I verken som visas på Galleri Backlund använder hon sig av vår tids kvinnligt kodade attribut som den rosa färgen och syntetiskt löshår. Det är ett flickrummets estetik med enkla, konstgjorda material och bjärta färger. Tematiskt arbetar Kimzonite med frågor om normer och identitet. Här finns ett underliggande budskap om att värna det vi är, att inte låta någon diktera hur en människas kropp bör se ut och en vilja att bryta både tabun och invanda föreställningar. De textila verken Fittor och Remolinos, problematiserar människans och samhällets förhållande till det kroppsliga och kvinnligt kodade.
Skulpturen The Mute, The Blind and The Deaf, Amen! är i grunden ett assemblage av övningshuvuden använda på en frisörsalong. Huvudena är staplade på varandra likt en totempåle, varefter teknikprylar som gjutits av i gips, monterats. Alltsamman har sedan 3D-scannats och frästs ut i frigolitblock. Verket kom till som en reaktion på ett allt mer digitaliserat samhälle. När den mänskliga interaktionen minskar i det fysiska rummet ökar behovet av att träna på civilkurage för att finnas där för varandra.
Text av: Ida Gudmundsson
Leave Them Alone 2020
Ghen, Belgium
This manifestation has two central locations where Mammelokker is portrayed. Mammelokker comes from an old roman legend that tells of a man sentenced to starvation in prison. He heroically survives since his daughter is able to visit him so that he can be breastfeed by her. Both of the artworks (the stone sculpture and the mural) are made by male artists, giving a male perspective on the story.
This manifestation wants to give a female perspective which I find more relevant to the story.
The song is using the scar as a metaphor of describing the mental effects like internalised male gaze. Boobes are constantly beeing sexualised and women with big boobes are often deminished to being/feeling like they are only a pair of breasts. There is a male perspective and gaze associated with how breasts are portrayed which affects how women see their own bodies.
Making this music video is an attempt to heal those scars and to claim self ownership of the female body.
This manifestation wants to give a female perspective which I find more relevant to the story.
The song is using the scar as a metaphor of describing the mental effects like internalised male gaze. Boobes are constantly beeing sexualised and women with big boobes are often deminished to being/feeling like they are only a pair of breasts. There is a male perspective and gaze associated with how breasts are portrayed which affects how women see their own bodies.
Making this music video is an attempt to heal those scars and to claim self ownership of the female body.
Flagg sculpture
Close up, glass with potatoes
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Flagg sculpture
The flaggs used in the manifestation was made into a sculpture together with casted glass.
Carved found wooden sticks, thread, textile with embroidered text, casted glass, potatoes, string and macramé |
The clay sculpture made for the music video was featured in the Zomersalon 2020 at Ghent Kunsthal Julie and August
Kunsthal Ghent, Belgium
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My Boobes
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Bröstens Klagosång (The Breast's Lamentation)
Frölunda Torg, Mall in Gothenburg, Sweden
January 2020
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Video installation in mall.
Metal construction, mat, shower curtains, headphones, wooden bench and tv screen with video. The text in the video was created based on a conversation with a focus group of three women that all had breast reduction surgery. It gives voice to experiences about breasts as a problem. A problem, physically and mentally. . The style of the video is created as a karaoke that invites you to sing a long. |
Video stills
Von Dittersdorf On Nose Flute
Video, shown at Gothenburg Museum of Art 2019
Von Dittersdofr is the name of the composer of the piece that is played on the nose flute.
The video was recorded in Gothenburg museum of art in which the video piece was later exhibited.
The video mixes high and low culture and plays with norms associated with it.
The sound is the focus in this exhibition, using the the acoustics of the room.
The video was recorded in Gothenburg museum of art in which the video piece was later exhibited.
The video mixes high and low culture and plays with norms associated with it.
The sound is the focus in this exhibition, using the the acoustics of the room.
Video stills
Sound #3 Objects and Communication
For the third time Gothenburg Museum of Art exhibit sound pieces together with the collection of sculptures and paintings.
Which sounds belong in a museum? How do we relate sound to objects?
For the third time Gothenburg Museum of Art exhibit sound pieces together with the collection of sculptures and paintings.
Which sounds belong in a museum? How do we relate sound to objects?
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Participating artists:
Anna Nord Ajami Carl Hugosson Daniel Wirgård Johanna Lernstedt Sjödin Kimzonite SanktMarie Miina Anahita Nanna Lund-Nielsen |
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Tonsure, Solo Exhibition
at Gallery Monitor, Gothenburg
22-25 March 2019
Tonsure is the religious act of cutting or shaving one’s hair as a sacrifice to God.
The full head is shaved within Hinduism and is sold within the global hair trade. The model of that rite was used to lead the visitors through the exhibition.
It starts with a possibility to give collect and then lathed wood with hair trenses connecting them as they for a que that lead up to the icon triptych inspired from Catholicism. Instead of a virgin Mary my centre piece includes bowing heads and a painted people crowd.
The visitor becomes their own Gods in that way. This is a connections to going to a rock concert (that could be seen as a kind of religion or worship in Sweden) where showing that one belong to the group is very important. Like buying a band t-shirt, that were sold in the exhibition.
The full head is shaved within Hinduism and is sold within the global hair trade. The model of that rite was used to lead the visitors through the exhibition.
It starts with a possibility to give collect and then lathed wood with hair trenses connecting them as they for a que that lead up to the icon triptych inspired from Catholicism. Instead of a virgin Mary my centre piece includes bowing heads and a painted people crowd.
The visitor becomes their own Gods in that way. This is a connections to going to a rock concert (that could be seen as a kind of religion or worship in Sweden) where showing that one belong to the group is very important. Like buying a band t-shirt, that were sold in the exhibition.
Icon Triptych: Wood, fabric, hairdressing practice heads, wallpaper, acrylic paint
Exhibition merchendice
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Icon Triptych, outside
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Hair trens making during exhibition
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In the last step visitors were asked to sacrifice around 10 strands of hair that were made into a hair trens. That is the same technique as the hair in-between the wood pillars. Subject of interests are idolization and group identity. |
Hair trens made from visitors hair
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Group exhibition KOM, 2018
Akademin Valand
The mute, the blind and the deaf, Amen!
The mute, the blind and the deaf, Amen!
Styrofoam sculpture,140 cm
3D scanned from plaster model and then milled.
Acrylic paint applied with airbrush.
3D scanned from plaster model and then milled.
Acrylic paint applied with airbrush.
"Eleverna på Akademin Valand imponerar" Sara Arvidsson, GP
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GP Article
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Koinophobia
”While you're in it, life seems epic. Fiery, tenuous, and unpredictable. But once you have some distance from it, everything seems to shrink, until it's almost out of focus. So you begin scanning your life looking for something interesting or beautiful. But all you see is ordinary people assembled in their tiny classrooms and workspaces, each of us moving around in little steps, like tokens on a game board”.
Definition by, John Koenig
From The Dictionary of obscure sorrows
From The Dictionary of obscure sorrows
Synthetic wig by measurements for bronz bust depicting Charles Lindley at Olof Palmes Plats (Järntorget)
Järntorget, 2018
