Photo: Hendrik Zeitler
SIGHTLINES
Duo-exhibition with Jesper Nyrén.
Katarina Löfström works primarily with video art, digital animations, sound art and sculptural installations. In the current exhibition, she also presents paintings in the form of digital prints. Her art often occupies the borderland between distinct focus and dreamlike states.
An urban landscape, a horizon or a photograph can inspire her, but the very essence in her works is often concerned with feelings, phenomena and concepts. She also shows an interest in different stages of consciousness such as wakefulness, daydreams, trancelike states and the condition of hypnagogia, but also of optical phenomena in relation to sound.
Using repetitive movements, loops, reflections and lighting effects she creates works that strengthen and concentrate certain phenomena. In this way she manipulates our perception of the fleeting borders of what we regard as reality. With video art and paintings with the title Point Blank there are two totally different forms of picture that are related to each other: targets (to kill) and mandalas (meditation). Both require profound concentration but with diametrically different content and meaning.
Katarina Löfström also has a strong relationship with the sea and has increasingly interested herself in Hilma af Klint’s visual world in whose family there were numerous naval officers and cartographers. Hilma af Klint was a skilled navigator, and several of her works are somewhat reminiscent of seamarks, something that Katarina Löfström refers to in a series of graphic designs and sculptures.
Outside the museum she is showing Open Source consisting of linked gleaming sequins that reflect the sky and the sea in which fiction and reality merge. Mirroring is close to her interest in film-like effects, in which the relation between surface and the depths, solid and fleeting is elucidated. This is also a way in which she can stage animations and moving images in full daylight. One important ambition lies in studying and extending her own artistic field and creating innovative works beyond the rational and conventional.
For more information about the exhibition, visit Bohusläns museum.
