Joachim Carlsson

JOACHIM CARLSSON

Visual artist. Born in 1966 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Joachim Carlsson was educated at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm 1993-1998. He lives and works in Stockholm and Gothenburg.

Ambiguity runs like a red thread through Joachim Carlsson’s entire oeuvre. He is a sculptor with a complex relationship to painting. And a painter who can’t refrain from sculpting.

Therefore, one should be aware that his works always have at least two types of reading: one as an image and another as an object, or as a kind of physical imprint from a life’s journey. Exactly where the centre of gravity lies varies. Within each individual work there is always a subtle negotiation going on. (Anders Olofsson, art critic)

The series As if suggests that what we see can always be something else. Or that what we say may have a completely different meaning. The fans in the work consist of parts of other paintings that have been cut apart and rearranged in a new form. They preserve their painterly character, but also go beyond painting. In different poses, like excerpts from pictorial history, you can see the kind of decorative tools that have been used over time as both protection from the sun and heat, as well as accessories and emblems. The fan is a charged symbol that in its own way constituted an extended and  abstracted body language, with various choreographed gestures in a discrete coded language of social life during the 18th and 19th century. The sophisticated language expressed either alienation through signals of distancing, or an invitation to conversation and exchange of meaning.
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EXHIBITION

ELLIPS 2024.10.26 – 2024.11.29