Delicately and elegantly constructed, Swedish artist Jockum Nordström's collages, watercolors, graphite drawings, and
architectural sculptures feel improvisational and spontaneous, yet rich in detail.
Not exact matches
Painted fabric over plaster and wood, Nikravan's
architectural jigsaw puzzles don't make sense; the objects
feel alien, as if one is looking at the backside of a
sculpture or through a window — some sit awkwardly on top of plexiglass plinths reminiscent of TV consoles others are pinned on the wall their looping forms unsatisfactorily interrupted.
, which she began in 2012, zigzags, smoke plumes, and
architectural shapes collide on canvases and translate into
sculptures that
feel rooted in the language of advertising, yet indicate that something more personal and mysterious is at play.
In other works, however, the themes
feel like an abstract frame forced upon individual positions, for instance, in Monika Sosnowska's Façade (2013), a hanging steel
sculpture of a crumpled
architectural grid, or Oscar Murillo's unnecessary monumental installation Condiciones aún por titular (Conditions yet not known), 2014 — 17, taking over the courtyard of Bait Al Serkal with excavations, sawn canvases, paintings and steel structures inspired by morgue tables, picturing the process of a personal archaeology.