TYPE OF PROJECT: Painting

LOCATION: Exhibitions include Liljevalchs Vårsalong, Bagarmossens Folkets Hus, Konstnärsbaren, Glasets Hus and Galleri Stenhallen

YEAR: 2021 – 2025

MATERIAL: Vinyl paint on canvas

SIZE: 150x120x4 cm and 100x150x4 cm

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.