Text from the solo exhibition FLYGELN 2025, Huddinge.

“Something in the air” describes a feeling that something is about to happen. How do we interpret images today? The phenomenon of pareidolia occurs when humans see shapes or figures in clouds, stumps, or stones—a “misreading” of what is seen. Can we even assume that an image tells the truth? Our imagination and the brain’s capacity to envision another reality become crucial if we want to imagine a different future.

By altering carefully selected images with small interventions, my art opens a space to question what an image shows: truth, documentary, destruction, and our relationship to evil. We are used to seeing images as bearers of truth, but when all images are potentially manipulated, we find ourselves in a state of chaos.

The word GRAVEYARD appears in collages and drawings. Using graphite, I employ the frottage technique, pressing the word into the paper. Graveyards, for me, are a collective term for what we create in different places on Earth—through war, over-fertilization, and environmental destruction. We create surfaces that are graveyards: places where humans and animals cannot live, and the earth cannot be cultivated. Through repetition of the word, a kind of truth emerges. Graphite lends itself to documentary and cinematic qualities, something analog. It leaves traces of my movements, and through imagination, I try to discern images in these marks and traces.

Fingers and hands emerge. From a chaotic flow, the eye finds a finger or a nail to rest on—something familiar—only to be broken apart and, in the tradition of the grotesque, multiplied into something else. A free flow leads me to thoughts of digging into the earth and the double meanings of the word sorgkant—both as an association to a death notice and to dirt under the nails. Perhaps it is the need to ground oneself.