Närmare 1:9

2025 — Solo exhibition, Blås & Knåda

Close-up of a copper-brown glass shape with fine ridged lines, held on steel pins above a frosted pale pink shape, against pale canvas beside a light wooden frame edge. — Photo: Sara Danielsson

Närmare 1:9 takes its starting point in a forest holding in Jämtland, Sweden, that I have inherited. To inherit a forest is to receive something that extends far beyond one’s own lifetime: a place, a landscape and a responsibility that has been cared for by previous generations and is now to be passed on.

Three tall light-wood frames on a whitewashed gallery wall, each scattered with translucent glass shapes in black, grey, amber, peach, pink and cream, with a window at left. — Photo: Sara Danielsson

Two square light-wood frames on a white wall, with pale yellow and clear glass shapes, some ribbed or textured, pinned on steel spacers across white canvas and over the frame edges. — Photo: Sara Danielsson

The work explores the relationship between people and the forest, and what it means to care for something that is both material and living. The forest can be understood as a resource, but also as an ecosystem with its own sense of time and its own processes. A tension emerges between these perspectives.

Through the work, I approach questions of inheritance and responsibility: what does it mean to receive something that we may also need to change, care for, or leave untouched? Närmare 1:9 is an attempt to move closer to this place and to the questions that come with it.

Dimensions: Fragment av en vägg 1 and 2: 35 × 35 cm each, framed
Exhibition: Närmare 1:9, Blås & Knåda, 13 September – 1 October 2025
Location: Hornsgatan 26, Stockholm

Two square light-wood frames on a white wall, with peach and clear textured glass shapes pinned on steel spacers across white canvas, casting soft shadows. — Photo: Sara Danielsson

Close-up in hard side light: a smoky brown glass shape with fine ribbed texture on a steel spacer, over a pale gold patterned piece, with a black ribbed piece at left and a smooth grey one below.

A standing sculpture: layered pale pink and amber glass shapes like a cloud, held by a dark metal plate on two thin black rods rising from a rough grey stone on a dark floor. — Kanske ett träd 1

The sculpture Skogsdimma: a frosted white glass top like a drifting cloud on a black, branch-like stand with a rough base, on a concrete floor in front of a sheer white curtain. — Skogsdimma