Artist Statement/ Biography

Liva Isakson Lundin's artistic practice includes sculpture and drawing. Her sculptures or installations are often site specific, as they are created or finalized in the exhibition space. The room itself is in many cases a bearing element in the work, and in a way the sculptures become temporary shapes, or states of mind. She is using the physical qualities of industrial materials, like metal, rubber and glass, to experiment with ways of holding up a structure, or holding on to a movement. The materials transform, deform and stabilize each other in intimate constructions of emotion and control. This fleeting moment of reliance is also captured in her drawings.

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Liva Isakson Lundin, born 1990, earned her masters degree from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm 2016. Her work has been exhibited frequently in Sweden, for instance at Moderna Museet, Bonniers Konsthall and Royal Swedish academy of Fine Arts. She is represented by Wetterling Gallery in Stockholm, with whom she participated at The Armory Show in New York in 2020. She has completed a number of public commissions, including a permanent installation for the city theatre in Gothenburg, Sweden, as well as a sculptural commission for the main square in Eslöv, Sweden. She is represented in the collections of Moderna Museet in Stockholm amongst others.