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In Voices / Röster, Ann Edholm brings together significant works from the early 1990s and a new body of paintings from this year that mark a new phase in her practice. Together, they reveal the richness and force of her distinctive, physically engaged approach to abstraction, while highlighting her significant position within Swedish and European painting.
Image as Act, the title of two large-scale canvases, can be seen as emblematic of the new works. Edholm developed each painting individually through the painterly process itself, correlating them to the human body. They demand an active, bodily engagement – “from navel to navel,” as Edholm explains – to fully grasp their subtle complexity and contrasting painterly effects. In Image as Act, vivid red “zips” run horizontally across the canvases as evenly as lines on a page, while smoky gestures of black color seem to press against the grid from behind. Depending on the viewer’s perspective and the interplay of light, th…
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In Voices / Röster, Ann Edholm brings together significant works from the early 1990s and a new body of paintings from this year that mark a new phase in her practice. Together, they reveal the richness and force of her distinctive, physically engaged approach to abstraction, while highlighting her significant position within Swedish and European painting.
Image as Act, the title of two large-scale canvases, can be seen as emblematic of the new works. Edholm developed each painting individually through the painterly process itself, correlating them to the human body. They demand an active, bodily engagement – “from navel to navel,” as Edholm explains – to fully grasp their subtle complexity and contrasting painterly effects. In Image as Act, vivid red “zips” run horizontally across the canvases as evenly as lines on a page, while smoky gestures of black color seem to press against the grid from behind. Depending on the viewer’s perspective and the interplay of light, th…




























































