May 22 – June 19, 2014
Galleri Riis
Stockholm, Sweden
Artists
Kristina Matousch, Eline Mugaas, Lisa Tan and Jan Groth
Lisa Tan (b. 1973, Syracuse, New York) works mostly in video, photography and installations to explore the intricate relationship between language and experience. Persistent themes of desire, loss, and longing appear in her conceptually driven works that are characteristically executed in a clear and unsentimental manner. Kristina Matouschs’ (b. 1974, Kalmar) art is powerful; the object’s high-gloss finish, coupled with profound content including the embarrassing, disgusting, desirable and aggressive, have the ability to occupy and change rooms and those inhabiting them. Jan Groth (b. 1938, Stavanger) works with the deceptively simple, as his oeuvre revolves around the line. He draws, sculpts and has executed monumental tapestries, always with the line as motif. Groth's line seems preliminary of something yet to become but is already complete. Eline Mugaas’ (b. 1969, Oslo) photographs hold pure formal aspects in the seemingly everyday. Her images thus include both the private and public and the motifs contain accidental visual information, together with illusory architectural elements created by light and shadow.
Photo credit:
Jean-Baptiste Béranger