(2026)
Josefin Lindskog
MAY 13 - MAY 31
Description
The exhibition Multiplied Transformation presents parts of Josefin Lindskog’s work from recent years. The large-scale drawings tells us about an ongoing exploration of visualizing situations and events that, through the artistic process, are processed and embodied. The work engages with themes of power, norms, and structures, resistance and expectations. It reflects experiences of being in constant, often violent motion, moving in different directions while simultaneously feeling locked in and constrained. Questions of fitting in, adapting or ending up in exclusion are central. Also, the longing for freedom and stillness. The piece “oh Mother pt 2” was shown in its entirety during the summer exhibition at Röda Sten Konsthall in 2023, where seventeen stacks of washed and folded clothes stood as monuments to motherhood and care. The columns, measuring 270–360 cm in height, also represented hidden narratives of the different bodies that once wore the garments. The stacked laundry transforms into pillars—forms intended to uphold a structure, and through their load-bearing function, create stability and a foundation for something larger. At HAS, “oh Mother pt 2” is presented in smaller fragments, through the space. The drawings and the sculptural objects together provide an insight into the artist’s ongoing process.
Artist Statement
In my work, I explore existential questions rooted in personal experience. I primarily work with large-scale drawing and often use the body both as a tool and as a subject in photographic sequences that serve as source material. From these, I select motifs that I draw into large formats—at least life-size (1:1)—using graphite and charcoal on paper, often in multiple layers. The photographs function as documentation, but also as raw material that I digitally process to open up new layers of meaning. By working on a large scale, the pieces gain a kind of physical presence that softens the intensity of the feeling (often a problematic one) from which they originated. The act of drawing is slow and methodical—a way of immersing myself in the body’s expression and charge, but also in the process of making itself, which for me has become almost like a ritual. The final drawings shift between enlarged superrealism and abstraction. Alongside this, I work with sculptural objects. The meticulous, “realistic” approach to drawing seems to generate an opposite need—to work abstractly and three-dimensionally.
About the artists
Josefin Lindskog (b. 1980) is based in Stockholm. She has previously exhibited at venues including Röda Sten Konsthall in Gothenburg, Teckningsmuseet, the art halls of Härnösand and Katrineholm, and Länsmuseet Gävleborg. She graduated from Konstfack and Stockholms Konstnärliga Högskola, and also works as a scenographer and art educator.
Date & Address
VERNISSAGE: MAY 13, 18.00–21.00
ARTIST AND CURATOR PRESENTATION, 19.00
May 13 – MAY 31, MON–SUN 10.00–16.00
HAS - HELIX ART SPACE, TORSPLAN 12, 16TH FLOOR
Artists
Josefin Lindskog
CREDITS
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