Supermarket 2023
Emma Hjelm - Jenny Käll - Johanna Kindahl
Galleri Nos / Supermarket / May 11-14, 2023
Emma Hjelm - Jenny Käll - Johanna Kindahl
Galleri Nos / Supermarket / May 11-14, 2023
For the exhibition, we have brought together three artists - Emma Hjelm, Jenny Käll, and Johanna Kindahl. In their work, we have found common areas of interest; communication, existence, and the relationship between humans and animals from different perspectives.
Emma Hjelm mainly works with animation. Through repetitive movements and loops, something - often a creature made of fake fur, wool, or yarn - comes to life to express feelings such as frustration, worry, longing, loneliness, everyday life, and companionship. She is now presenting a new work about nightmares as pets.
Jenny Käll is interested in what is experienced as recognizable, yet foreign.
She makes installations and sculptures in various materials, such as ceramics, wood, bone, and fabric. For the exhibition, she takes the starting point in the complex relationship humans have with animals. She will produce an altar-like furniture in a collage of materials and objects circulating on the border between play/rituals, object/amulett and animal-like sculptures/sculptures for animals.
Johanna Kindahl’s sculptures revolve around different types of communication systems. She has been inspired by how butterflies communicate with their wings by reflecting UV light at certain angles, as well as how humans communicate through the use of flags. Based on this, she has created a sculptural system where the final works communicate between and connect different points in the room.
