\nNude: Karlsson Rixon featuring Mario Fjell<\/strong><\/p>\n
Nude is a series of interactions between two bodies and portrays the artist in a life phase associated with reflecting on the body in relation to queerness, trans identity and ageing. In this playful, intimate and earnest piece, the viewer encounters a performative, staged
\nmoment where one body carries, balances, handles, or is invaded by, another body. Perhaps the two together form a new organism that is in perpetual metamorphosis, a body that does not correspond to the habitual concept of how a body looks and behaves.<\/p>\n
Nude relates to previous works by Karlsson Rixon from around 1990, which also explore physical expression. The years that have gone by since then have left visual signs on the body, while experiences and discourses have opened up for new understandings of how we can reason and feel about ourselves.<\/p>\n
Karlsson Rixon takes possession of Anders Zorn\u2019s imagery. Room 2<\/strong><\/p>\n Nude women are among the most common motives in Anders Zorn\u2019s oeuvre, as models bathing in the Stockholm archipelago or engaged in everyday chores in bucolic settings. The subject matter was contrary to the sexual repression at the time, but it also reflects an attitude to women formed by the artist\u2019s erotic desires and the male heterosexual gaze.<\/p>\n The Thiel Gallery collection includes nearly 200 etchings by Anders Zorn, from which Karlsson Rixon has selected a few, based partly on an artistic practice as a photographer, and on the potential to discern queer desire \u2013 feelings, thoughts and experiences that do not adhere to a heterosexual norm.<\/p>\n The photographic gaze. Several of these etchings resemble snapshots, with their random cropping and the way they capture movement. Technology and seeing have impacted on the composition and representation of bodies. Zorn often used a camera in place of sketching.<\/p>\n Dangerous desire. Women merging with the shadows, looking sensual and seeming to harbour an inner mystique. Any viewer, regardless of gender or sexuality, can allow themselves to be attracted and seduced by these figures in lust-filled encounters on equal terms. If we perceive these images merely as expressions of the artist\u2019s erotic fantasies, we block other potential interpretations.<\/p>\n Lesbian liaisons. Naked women enjoying nature together. Physical closeness also holds the potential for erotic encounters between women who love women. These works show sensual relations that can be interpreted in many ways.<\/p>\n Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole. Honest portrait. The Banker\u2019s Bathroom<\/strong><\/p>\n Photography occupies more and more of our everyday lives. This is a medium that we trust, even though we know how easy it is to manipulate photographic images with lenses, filters and digital processing. It is a democratic and accessible technology, but also a challenge for anyone who wants to move on and do something artistic and experimental.<\/p>\n Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole strives to create truthful pictures of the body but chooses not to use the camera for her project Honest portrait. Instead, she applies photographic liquids to her own body and presses herself onto the black-and-white photo paper. Thighs, back, The physical and spiritual presence of the body is manifested beyond classical ideals of beauty. Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole wants to help change our contemporary obsession with superficiality and beauty ideals, not by replacing them with something new but by offering her own actual body: - \u201cIf it\u2019s real, it\u2019s beautiful!\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Karlsson Rixon feat: Mario Fjell, 2016\/2018<\/p><\/div>\n Karlsson Rixon, Nudes<\/em>, installation, 2018, Thielska Galleriet. Photo: The Artist<\/p><\/div>\n Anders Zorn, Model Study<\/em>, 1898, etching. Photo: Tord Lund \/ Thielska Galleriet<\/p><\/div>\n Anders Zorn, Standing Model<\/em>, 1901, etching. Photo: Tord Lund \/ Thielska Galleriet<\/p><\/div>\n Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole, Honest Portrait<\/em>, 2015.\u00a0 Photo: The Artist<\/p><\/div>\n Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole, Honest portrait<\/em>, 2016. Photo: The Artist<\/p><\/div>\n
\nbreasts, hands and feet appear on the surface, forming a kind of life-size copy of her body. She has also experimented with capturing her breath, which spreads like particles across the image. The nude study is conducted as a performance \u2013 witnessed by an audience, who can recount its making. The photographic image is not fixated but is aged by atmosphere and light, and the colours change constantly.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thielskagalleriet.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nakenakt_09-e1529522237136.jpg\")
<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>