Loneliness is a very special place
Loneliness is a very special place, installation view.
Waiting, Ready, 2024
Varied dimensions
Vulcanic & white stoneware, various mixed earthenware & stoneware ceramic
As a Room, 2024
Varied dimensions
Pencil on wall
Text composed of extracts from the artists’ notebooks as well as quotes by Jennifer Higgie (The Mirror and the Palette. Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience. 500 Years of Women’s Self-Portraits), Leonora Carrington, adrienne
maree brown, Laurie Anderson, José Gonzáles (Line of Fire), Sara Parkman (Jag ropar and Neonljusen), Mingyur Rinpoche, Roni Horn, Renate Welsh (Ich ohne Worte), Jonna Bornemark (Jag är himmel och hav: en filosofisk undersökning av gravididet, liv och jagets gränser).
Unknown Language, 2023
70x100 cm
Buncheong ceramics, white slip courtesy of Jeong Young-Yu, various glazes, reduction fired
Klangkörper, 2023
20x25,8 cm
Photography on Hahnemühle Studio Enhanced, bright white, matt, 210gsm
Jana and Jasmin, 2015
20,5x20,7 cm
Screen-print on buff stoneware ceramics and white slip
Holding (My Own) Hands, 2023
27x52 cm
Photography on Hahnemühle Studio Enhanced, bright white, matt, 210gsm
Full Circle Half Knowledge, 2018
42x52 cm
Photographer Sylvian Deleu
Photography on Hahnemühle Studio Enhanced, bright white, matt, 210gsm
Loneliness is a very special place
The solo exhibition "Loneliness is a very special place", (from Olivia Laing's book The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone, 2016) is an homage to loneliness and an attempt to celebrate, capture, witness and give form to a state of being that is familiar to everyone in different ways. The work consists of an installation of sculpture, image and text that explores the intersection of temporary, non-permanent and spatial images of loneliness as a condition. The exhibition at Temporary Stabilisations draws on the platform's ideas of temporary states and dissolved boundaries between materials and language in artistic processes.
With many thanks to:
First and foremost Annie Johansson and Andreas Engman for generously inviting me to exhibit at their platform Temporary Stabilisations, and for their incredible support to make this project happen. A big thank you also to Anna Schuster, Amelie Reeker, Adriana Sasso, Beppe Guzzo, Gerhard Schuster, Irmi von Guggenberg, Malin Franzén, Matilda Haggärde, Rachel Barron, Sylvian Deleu.
Photos © Hendrik Zeitler, Exhibition View of 'Loneliness is a very special place', Temporary Stabilisations, Harald Stakegatan 2, 415 15 Gothenburg, Sweden, 2024.