Current exhibitions

AFTERBURN

 

The term Afterburn has several meanings – in training it refers to the body's continued burning after exertion. It's that feeling of the body still glowing, the pulse is high, the muscles are trembling. It can also refer to what remains after the fight has taken place - the aftertaste, the pain and the adrenaline.

 

In the exhibition, Lotta Grimborg and Linda Ottosson come together in a joint exploration of the aesthetics, body ideals and material language of sport. Through textiles and metal, they make visible the tensions that arise between control and dissolution, strength and vulnerability, precision and loss. Afterburn becomes a shared space where the aftermath of pressure, performance and competition takes on body and form.

 

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Lotta Grimborg (b.1988) is based in Gothenburg, educated at Konstfack and HDK-Valand. Through embroidery, appliqué and sculpture, she explores how the world of sport can function as a mirror for society's norms around performance, body ideals, competition and belonging. The soft materiality is contrasted with the often hard, competitive, fast-paced rhetoric of sport.

 

Linda Ottosson (b.1986) is based in Stockholm and educated at Konstfack. She works in metal and lets the material's resistance reflect questions of strength, discipline and control. Through bodily and sports-related references, she investigates what happens when ideals crack – when power loses direction and form begins to give way. In the encounter between the shiny and the dented, the masculine and the fragile, a physical tension arises where hierarchies are disrupted and new expressions take shape.