ARTIST PROFILE
- Sweden (b. 1991 in Räng)
- Currently in Helsingborg, Sweden.
- Artist from Sweden/Vietnam.
CONTACT & LINKS
Untitled Lacquer Painting
- 2014
- Vietnamese lacquer on Wood, Wood
- Vietnamese lacquer is unique to Vietnam. The paint is made from fermented resin, mixed with pigment and then painted on specially prepared wooden canvases.
- 70 x 170 cm
The warped painting inspired by the Mirror of truth carries many hidden marks of struggle between the Vietnamese material and the Dry Nordic climate. The material's lack of cooperation with the environment is symbolic of my own struggle with my identity.
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Ritual Ramblings | 2014
A series of work all linked by a performance. A Vietnamese lacquer painting inspired by the "Mirror of truth", a mirror in the Buddhist underworld that reflects and judges your truth in the afterlife. A Vietnamese coated lacquer sculpture taken from the idea of the mountain of knives in the Buddhist underworld which we all must pass as a form of punishment to find peace. And a group of masks inspired by the Helkappe, a mask used by Nordic Bronze Age shamans in order to communicate with spirits.