«Siesta #3» 2024 ⛲️
Oil on canvas, 120x90 cm (47,2x35,4 in)

Part of the Siesta-series.

The white plastic garden chair is a design icon, found in gardens and patios all over the world. It´s often found with green stains from being outside in all kinds of weather, uncleaned and harshly treated, which the durable plastic it´s made from allows it to be. But the treatment of it may also relate to its cheapness and ubiquity. It´s an object related to the working class, charter holidays, fast-food restaurants, and chess-playing grandpas in Southern Europe. At the same time, it´s a symbol of mass production and consumer culture, and the implications that plastic, a human-made material from oil, non-bio-degradable, has for the environment.

In my artistic practice I work with figurative paintings that explore contemporary popular and internet culture. Among other things, I examine celebrities, memes, reality TV, internet trends and stock images, and I am interested in images and objects that are considered low culture - kitschy, tasteless and gaudy. I am curious about what judgments of taste say about worldviews, cultures, family backgrounds and places in the social hierarchy, and try to investigate other ways of seeing the world. Lifting the low culture objects into the high culture sphere of art, and with that, confronting the viewer’s taste and expectations of what art should thematize, is central to my artistic project.

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