Orange Lynx

"I followed the horizontal line until the blackness of nightfall had me in its grip, until the sun looked like an orange lynx under the pond-ice. No, she wasn't dead. I saw her crawling, swimming paws cupping water. Under the ice, Kitty turned white, her fur was almost glowing, white as the moon.

"I followed the horizontal line until the blackness of nightfall had me in its grip, until the sun looked like an orange lynx under the pond-ice. No, she wasn't dead. I saw her crawling, swimming paws cupping water. Under the ice, Kitty turned white, her fur was almost glowing, white as the moon. It was one of those rare moments or dreams in life, when the night comes alive from its darkened dead, making the ice shine bright like a diamond. Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius formed the constellation in the 17th century from 19 faint stars that he observed with the unaided eye between the constellations Ursa Major and Auriga. Naming it Lynx because of its faintness, he challenged future stargazers, declaring that only the lynx-eyed (those of good sight) would be able to recognize it. I saw it for sure. The constellation was burning clear as the day.

patch
shirt
on
pearly white
fucking freezing
got more paper
from garbage cans
etc.
sizzling
moonshine
purring dry
martini

Is it the lack of variation in language, or is it the variations per se – so subtle, obscured, that makes us wander? Surging beyond memories. I heard her language being pulled apart from her body and from itself in time. Instead, she drew lines on a map for us to follow, felt (naturally) sceptical, looking for failure, her failure – an interruption of some sort. She said; to find your way through the dark, you have to write yourself into existence."

Jenny Kalliokulju

Malena Norlin's sculptures draws attention to where architecture and nature blends and ambivalent states of being. She investigates the attributes of materials and their relationships to each other, space, time and the body. Her approach to the materials is with emphasis on the physical experience.
www.malenanorlin.com

Nadine Byrne's multidisciplinary practice often explores her personal history and memory as a way of unfolding the present. Byrne focuses on the material in itself as a reference of emotion, creating works which are both intimate and distant. Her practice is also informed by an interest in alternative modes of perceiving the world, and how these are manifested socially and visually.
www.nadinebyrne.com

Ulrika Lublin's practice is focused around materiality in language and everyday-objects, which has resulted in a variety of installation based work. Lublin makes sculpture in a collage like manner, constructing and de-constructing temporary modules and objects, which puts function, use value and definitions to new use.
www.ulrikalublin.com

supported by: Norden / Kulturrådet (Swedish Arts Council)