TYPE OF PROJECT: Separate exhibition

LOCATION: Glasets Hus, Limmared

YEAR: 2025

MATERIAL: Pigmented cast concrete, vinyl paint on canvas

SIZE: 20x20x45 cm, 150x120x4 cm, 100x150x4 cm

“The exhibition hall of Glasets Hus in Limmared is vast and bare. Three tall windows let in a flood of light; the light hangs low during these short days of winter, creating hard shadows that fall across the concrete floor. In this space, works from the sculpture series Stacks and the painting series London, London are exhibited together; sculptures on a central linear path, paintings on surrounding walls. The placement of objects choreograph the visitors’ movements and forces the simultaneous reading of two – and three-dimensional interpretations of architecture together.”

Borrowing its title from a song written by Brazilian musician Caetano Veloso during his time in exile in the UK capital, LONDON LONDON depicts the brutalist National Theatre by Denys Lasdun, a building that has been much debated like brutalist work often is. Loved and hated in equal measures. The paintings strive to find a pictorial representation of architecture that is blunt and forceful – one that speaks directly to our senses without intellectual mediation. In an elaborate process of abstraction and use of light and shadow, the sculptural qualities of the subject are heightened, making it even bolder and more monumental than it already is. 

STACKS is a collection of pigmented concrete cast objects that explore some key sculptural and architectural principles: stereotomy and tectonics, mass and void, scales and sizes, additions and subtractions. The project also asks how a particular chosen size and material can inform the reading of an object: whether we interpret something as a 1:1 object in itself or as an architectural representation on scale 1:10 is up for discussion.