EVELINA HÄGGLUND
Like the musical, there are obstacles (interesting and beautiful obstacles) to be overcome in this room, obstacles of an aesthetic and emotional kind, the works twist and turn both literally and figuratively.
Imagine something being uprooted, in the sense of being pulled up and displaced, or merely placed somewhere new. The works in Hägglund’s exhibition are excavations from the ground and from the mind. There are portraits, both sculpted and painted and there are abstract drawings and objects. These are the stone-cold facts, the sort of shopping list-form of an exhibition description. Oh, how language can feel lifeless and inadequate! The numbness of it.