Malin Östberg

Title: Male pen pal wanted
Technique: Oil on MDF
Image dimensions: 110 x 78 cm
Frame dimensions: 128 x 96 cm

Malin Östberg (b.1979) lives and works in Borlänge. In her artistic practice, she works with spatiality. Mostly with painting and sculpture in various materials where works interact with each other in small stagings. The body has always played a central role in her works. The bodily and its presence is something she increasingly incorporates as a tool in her art. She is influenced by and draws narratives from our contemporary times, from politics, current events, but also from her own memory bank. In this way, she approaches everyday life and reality, which takes a turn from realism to surrealism and sometimes absurdity, where questions about the body and integrity, solidarity, and possibilities for freedom of choice are turned inside out. The public space as a place interests her, and the encounter between viewer and work as well as the conversations they generate are an important extension of her work.