Amanda Karlsson

Titel: Newborn (When an axe is born it is soft. It is completely defensless with dull edges and rounded corners. With time it will harden and learn its purpose)
Technique: Oil on wood
Dimensions: 42 x 2 7 x 9 cm

Amanda Karlsson was born in 1989 in Karlstad. She lives and works in Gothenburg. In her artistic work, she paints with oil and builds in wood, two-dimensionally and three-dimensionally. She builds scenographies and stages imagined events which she then documents and recreates in spatial installations and paintings. Her purpose is to formulate stories from a fictional reality alongside our own. The reality has been created from her upbringing in Värmland around mythological storytelling, the working class and deep forests. She investigates how a fictional space can act as a stage for our eternal need for intelligibility. From that place, she wants to find new perspectives and, if not approach a truth, at least process the longing for it.