Skellefteå Konstmuseum, 2022

Lovisa Ringborg often returns in her art to explore the subconscious; the home of our innermost feelings where memory, imagination, intuition and habits are woven together and govern our bodies and thoughts. In recent years, she has moved in the borderland between psychology and mysticism in her stagings and created her very own enigmatic image world with the techniques of photography, video and sculpture. In the exhibition Silver Days at Skellefteå Konsthall we are met by several photographs, made between the years 2020-2022, in a scale of gray tones and a triptych in red with motifs of untouched nature. Silver Days reproduces a kind of diary images of inner moods that are reflected in the various events of nature. Time and transformation, the interplay between dark and light, cold and heat, lead the viewer away from desolate reality and rational thinking to search within. The Greyhound sculptures, Stray Dogs, made of rebar and clay with a patinated surface of earth, iron oxide and paint, as well as the dark landscape images of forest, thicket, rock and marsh, reflect our senses and invite us to an unexplored, dreamy world to sink into.

Text by Anna-Karin Larsson / Curator at Skellefteå Konsthall