And in my heart there is... (Asnières)

Walldrawings in black acrylic paint, 100sqm, Galleri Konstfack and Bonneirs Konsthall, Stockholm 2007. The work was made for my solo master’s exhibition at Konstfack, later the same year i twas part of the exhibition ‘In search of the lost self’ at Bonniers Konsthall. One of the exhibition curators, Camilla Larsson, describes it in the catalogue. ‘Malin Pettersson Öberg is driven by a fascination for illustration, typography, text and design. Her works centre on surface and content and how these two levels harmonise. Her method often involves uncovering images and texts from their original context to create works with an inherent ambiguity. For example, the sentimental, luxurious and kitschy elements can be remoulded into firm shapes or vice versa. In And in my heart there is… (Asnières), she borrows farewell greetings from headstones in a Parisian pet cemetery founded at the turn of the last century, and paints them on the white walls of the gallery. The viewer is met by greetings to beloved and deceased friends with names such as Jackson, Sokrates and Sultan Galant vom Hatzfelt (!). Lofty concepts merge with elements from popular culture and the world of fantasy. As a reminder of the transitoriness of existence, an old pocket watch has been drawn on the wall."

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