MFA 2021 masters show
IN AN EXCEPTIONAL TIME / UMEÅ ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS
Bildmuseet
The final exhibition from the Master program from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts is a very personal show of young artists, who have put their energy and reflections into an old poetic and narrative system – art – at a time when so many certitudes have started to erode. This exceptional time will be a sort of hidden sub-text of the works presented.
But there is also the trajectory of their individual practice, their interest to discuss materialities and media, like painting, video or sculpture, their narratives, stemming from the personal and a perception of the world. The approaches are individual, but this does not mean that they put up barriers of separation, since they communicate through the exhibited works.
https://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/en/exhibitions/2021/umea-academy-of-fine-arts-mfa-2021/
In this essay I have playfully ventured to rediscover what I might know about art,what has been formed and blended all this time inside my mind, by the sources,influences, readings, references I have come across. Partially to answer to myselfwhere is my trajectory, where is it headed, and in that tracing hopefully, I willprovide a short reading here about what I think is art, and how I approach it.So, one can start from a simple question, at which one does not care to concludewith an answer: "why do we mark/trace a surface? Or for that matter, sculpt, think,animate etc." What is the inclination behind it? And more importantly, why do wecling to a specific preference?”
My work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything whichI have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one.” Wittgenstein
https://umu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1592819&dswid=-9141