-In the Shell with \u00c5sa Jungnelius
\nPoem by Tone Schunnesson<\/p>\n
Awarded “Swedish Book Art Award” 2024.<\/p>\n
Mussels is a portrait by photographer M\u00e4rta Thisner of artist \u00c5sa Jungnelius in her natural habitat. Thisner is present as the seeds are being sown in Jungnelius\u2019 studio and when they\u2019re harvested in her garden in M\u00e5nsam\u00e5la or at the glass-works in Kosta. In the photographs: a not-quite-feral cat, a thinned forest, a unique sculpture with an inner universe. The living encounter the withered, the everyday is visited by the sublime and braided together with ropes of many colors. Openness prevails. The unpaginated pages might seem random or like fragments of memory. Close your eyes and they are still there. What do we remember? What lingers is reformulated over time and assembled in new sequences. In an infinity, relative to life.<\/p>\n
M\u00e4rta Thisner is one of Sweden\u2019s most prominent photographers. Image-search her name and you\u2019ll find a cross-section of recent cultural figures from the worlds of dance, music and literature. Her portraits have an immediate readability, a refined contrast between a careful gaze and the brutal contours of her flash, which seems equally suited to rock and poetry as it does to still-lifes with glass sculptures. This is how she first came into contact with \u00c5sa Jungnelius \u2014 at a photo shoot for the Public Luxury exhibition at Arkdes in 2018. Jungnelius is one of the most respected designers and artists in the country, constantly renegotiating the relationship between the two forms. Although glass is her primary element, Jungnelius\u2019 work is to be considered contemporary art, with its integral parts of social commentary and criticism.<\/p>\n
Tone Schunnesson, Swedish author and playwright, has contributed with a poem from the deep forest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Participants:<\/p>\n
In the shell: \u00c5sa Jungnelius\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Poem: Tone Schunnesson<\/a><\/p>\n Photography: M\u00e4rta Thisner<\/a><\/p>\n