You’re never really sure when you look at a work of art. It can feel a little wrong, so it rubs. A wavering feeling. A work can make you lose your composure. A work that only works right now and may not later. A risk you have to take. A risk worth trying.

Participating artists Andréa Hösel and Helena Norell have curated the group exhibition “Temporary Balance” based on both their own and the invited artists’ relationship to color. Amanuelabiy Abraham, Ljubomir Popović and Anna Sörenson Rydh place color at the center of their artistic practice. Working with color can mean many things; the color of the light in a room, the colors of our everyday objects or pigments mixed into a soft, workable mixture. Color carries strong symbols and burning questions; pink and blue, an orange revolution or the colors of the rainbow. Through the light, any color can change and the color you saw just now may be another in an hour or two.

Andréa Hösel
With her work strongly rooted in painting, Andréa Hösel creates installations where everyday materials are allowed to carry the paint. The boundary between painting, sculpture and everyday objects is allowed to be fluid and art is intertwined with the surrounding world.

Helena Norell
In the work Four, I have used a piece of cardboard as a template.
The one called Two has two shapes. You can sit on the small chairs.
Paintings with circles hang high up. One in color titled 9000 times and an almost black and white titled Cosmic strips has shadows at the top.
The painting Sister depicts a large black face without eyes, nose and mouth. A kind of head-foot. Others may see something else.
Bucket sculptures with plastic buckets and metal buckets hang from the ceiling.

Ljubomir Popovic
is an artist born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (1987). Currently based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Popovic study MA 1st year in Fine Arts at Konstfack. Previously graduated BFA in Fine Arts at
Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam & Sculpture and Space at The University of Applied
Arts in Vienna.
Popovic actively engages with the dynamic growth of the city environment. As a result his
work comments on urban politics and the continuously changing urban environment.
Through sculptural installation Popovic addresses junctions and in-between spaces.
Capturing the material in the site specific, to mimic and trace the form of repetitive structures
in urban change, towards its collapse.
By collecting fragments of found objects as archaeological finds, Popovic displaces them from
their context. Creative destruction, and its ruin value articulates a critical approach to the
capitalist framework of gentrification.

Anna Sörenson Rydh
A few lines about the circles: The works in the “Circles” series are drawings in a large format.
The drawings follow a certain geometric scheme with the circle in focus. The circle is one of the most charged forms in art history with endless references, while it is also a symbol of infinity itself. The gaze moves around in it, the circle as movement goes on in itself and always starts over. A few lines about pills: A pill for a headache, a pill for pollen allergy, a pill to not have children or a pill to not be sad. Modern medicine has changed our view of the body and our expectations of what it should be able to do and how it should behave. A vaccine that will save the world economy. Lengths of shining pills, one more beautiful than the other, with growing expectations. Today’s medicine is tomorrow’s proof that we are still trying to overcome death.

Amanuelabiy Abraham
Amanuelabiy’s work departs from the tension in the relation between different materials, forms and colours. He contrasts nature with geometric forms, metal, manufactured objects
and the organic world with the industrial.

Curator: Andréa Hösel / Helena Norell