"I FELL IN LOVE AND BROKE IT" Caroline Näslund November 2010, 11 - November 8, 2010

The exhibition "I FELL IN LOVE AND BROKE IT" will be held.
Venue: Art Gallery T+
Date: December 2010, 11 - January 8, 2010
Exhibitor:
Caroline Näslund (Special Research Student (Graduate Student) of Department of Art and Design)

Installation and drawings about failure (and love).

T+review

When you first step into the gallery, you are enveloped in a silence that comes from the uniformity of the “black” of the works. This effect is heightened by the white walls of the gallery, and the silence makes the illustrations of everyday items hanging on the walls even more noticeable in their black frames.
The subjects depicted, such as thongs and pants, are chosen with a slightly twisted and interesting perspective. Drawn with black lines in the middle of white drawing paper, they are full of individuality that we usually do not notice. When you look closely at the illustrations, you feel a warm feeling that the artist's perspective on the things around us is somehow humorous and full of love, but what prevents you from leaving it there are black clouds. A pitch black cloud hangs over the black bed placed in the center of the gallery. It seems to represent the endless thoughts that overflow on a sleepless night. A lonely night in which thoughts gradually turn to anxiety and dissatisfaction, making it even more difficult to sleep and even making you feel unhappy. All of them become black clouds and cover the bed. The space surrounded by clouds cannot be approached by the everyday items that are always around me. No matter how unique or attached they are to them, the only way to overcome the dark clouds created by the chain of thoughts is to break them yourself. But day after day, as night falls, dark clouds gather, and I feel so small and overwhelmed by my powerlessness. Surely everyone has experienced this when they are in love. With thoughts dominated by the other person, peace of mind is far from attainable. This exhibition may be seen as a physical embodiment of what is going on in the artist's mind. We enjoy wandering through this world, gradually becoming overcome with anxiety, and in the end, we are reminded that the only way to overcome the pitch black clouds in each of our hearts is for us to do so. (Ikeda Hiroko)