During an internship at Indicum interior architects in 2021, I was in charge of curating and organising an exhibition to launch Indicum Studio, their brand new, explorational design program which exists to provide space for creative and artistic exploration.
In this project I chose to paint my own paintings. My paintings, which were the starting point for the exhibition, show an interpretation of Indicum’s work process in concept development. In line with Indium’s work process, I developed four different concepts, which I then interpreted in the form of paintings. I then chose to further develop two of the concepts that resulted in a painting each. The final concept became a mixture of these two concepts and resulted in two paintings titled “Forever Lost In Clown Land”.
The spatial design emerged with a starting point and inspiration taken from my paintings. Participating artists and their design objects were specifically chosen to let a vision of colour, texture and form emerge from a two-dimensional to a three-dimensional space.
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Participating artist: Emma Vo, Cecilia Tjärnberg, Linus Fridén, Klara Sandsjö and Anna Harström.
A big thank you also goes to Straight Design Studio and Ludvig Svensson Textiles who contributed with products to the exhibition.
Art project:
SKIN DEEP
In a world full of images of how we “should” look, it can be difficult to accept how we DO look.
The human body (especially the female one) and the beauty of the shapes found within it have been central in this project. I am interested in exploring how we view ourselves and our bodies in a modern western culture context, and what we consider to be beautiful. I am especially interested in how media and social media has received criticism for the way it portrays human perfection and the negative effect it can have on people as well as how we distort and manipulate images of the human form in order to achieve perceived “perfection”.
With this project, I question and challenge the “ideal” beauty and explore the sociological and psychological effects that influence distorting the image of the body. I ask myself; what are we prepared to do to ourselves in order to change parts of our image we perceive to be imperfect? How far are we willing to go? What is beauty?
During the time of working on this project I have been influenced by contemporary fine artists, such as Bruce Nauman and his hands and heads sculptures as well as his performing pieces like “Shit In Your Hat – Head On A Chair”. Fashion photographer Guy Bourdin and the way he photographed legs in different contortions have also been a source of inspiration. These artists motivated me to use casts of different parts of my own body and placing them in strange, unnatural positions as an attempt to challenge the idea of ideal beauty.
