Tea Eklund-Berglöw

Statement

In my work I’m interested in the silent language of gestures. The fragility of perception, stories within objects and materials and the presence of thought that they carry.

I work with left behinds, traces as clues, like tags, not wanting to be forgotten. Traces of situations indicating movement, attention/intention and the lack of it.

About one thing leading to another. Taking it step by step. Trying to get it, letting it get there. Like a sort of whisper game (telephone game).

I’m occupied by the way we project emotions and thoughts into objects, materials and shapes. In this I try to shift the gaze so the objects rather are looking back at the viewer, creating situations of meeting yet confrontation. It’s about arrangements and compositions where the objects speak for themselves and to each other in relation to the viewer, opening up for different ways of looking at and reading what’s around us.

My works are intimate depictions of ways of viewing and dealing with our everyday life surroundings. I want you to want to come closer.

GlogauAIR Project

I work with everyday life materials, scenes and objects from the streets. In this period I will continue my work with arranging, composing compositions and my work with collecting.

I work a lot with what you call simple and found materials. I will let things catch my eye. Objects and pictures. And build up my archive of observations.

It’s about painting but it’s also painting with surfaces and structures that only time develop.

My practice takes place at the walks and in the studio, where spending time with and getting to know my material is a big part of the process.

Berlin is a place that has given me lot of strong scenes and I’m really looking forward spending more time there and to be in a constant process.

CV Summary

• 2020 Bachelor show, Charlottenborg, Kongens Nytorv 1, Copenhagen
• 2019 Hit me up baby, group show Galleri Q Copenhagen
• 2019 Got It For Cheap / Velvet Ropes, Nevven galleri Gothenburg
• 2019 Close Call, group show Kunstscenen, Copenhagen
• 2019 Klimax, group show Gothenburg
• 2018 It Takes Two to Tango, solo show galleri Q Copenhagen
• 2018 Late Summer Art Show 5, Konstepidemins galleri, group show Gothenburg
• 2018 Rundgang, Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademie, Copenhagen
• 2018 Offentlige rum, group show Sankt anne plads Copenhagen
• 2018 Geist, group show galleriet pederskramsgade Copenhagen
• 2018 Link – Førstseårsudstilling, group show Det kongelige Danske Kunstakademie Copenhagen
• 2018 One more time with feeling, duo show, school gallery, Umeå Art academy
• 2017 Utsmyckningsarbete, festival Cult Cosmic Stockholm
• 2016 Förstaårsutställning, group show Umeå Art academy
• 2016 13 festivalen, performance festival konstepidemin Gothenburg
• 2015 Vinterutställning, group show Göteborgs Konstskola Gothenburg
• 2015 Kultursommarjobb group show at Frilagret and performance in the city. Gothenburg

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