Current exhibitions
STEFAN CEDER
Underströmmar
Opening ceremony Friday, October 9, 5–8 p.m.
Opening Saturday, October 10, 12–4 p.m.
The exhibition runs from October 10th to November 1st.
Open Tuesday-Friday 13–17, Saturday-Sunday 12–16
– I want it to be serious.
Stefan Ceder's paintings say that the world exists. That we are on a journey and that existence is changeable. Nothing is permanent.
– Why do you paint?
– I've done it my whole life.
– What happens when you take a break from painting?
– I lose an inner compass.
In a small studio house in northern Bohuslän, the paintings are created. Vast landscapes, broken or unfinished buildings, all under the open sky. Like in the works of author Cormac McCarthy, where the main characters in The Road make it through despite everything, with their hearts and consciences intact.
In every painting, something has happened. Something has always happened. Something has broken. Layer after layer, the gaze is led further, into the sensation of truth. Every painting has elements of light, even if only a reflection. The light is there. Openings exist. Poetry lives, and the clearing exists, as in Tomas Tranströmer's poem.
Reference points on the canvas become guides in the painting. – There is a sphere that I seek myself into, he says. In Stefan Ceder's paintings we continue to helplessly love the world, even when it does not seem to love us back. A Ceder credo. Always in the middle of time. An existential painting more than many others.
Catharina Goransson
NANA G SEYDANI
Inner Landscape
Opening ceremony Friday, October 9, 5–8 p.m.
Opening Saturday, October 10, 12–4 p.m.
The exhibition runs from October 10th to November 1st.
Open Tuesday-Friday 13–17, Saturday-Sunday 12–16
Nana G Seydani works at the intersection of traditional craftsmanship and generative digital design. Through algorithms, 3D printing and glass casting, she explores how digital processes can meet the handmade and material.
Inspiration is often drawn from the forms of nature, especially marine organisms, corals and hidden structures beneath the sea surface. In her art, she develops objects that move between the organic and the artificial, between the familiar and the alien. Forms emerge through code and biologically inspired systems, and are then processed through traditional glass casting techniques. The result is sculptural objects where transparency, color and internal structures create a sense of something both alive and imaginary.
In recent years, Seydani has deepened her work with kiln-cast glass at KKV in Gothenburg, developing methods where digital modeling and craftsmanship interact. Her ongoing project Inner Landscape investigates the hidden inner landscape of the ocean and acts as a kind of archive of species that never existed, but which still feel possible to recognize.