light&Dark Installation sculpture, by Kerstin Hedstrom
Kerstin Hedström often uses consumed objects, silent witnesses and symbols of events, feelings and experiences that, when put together, create patterns, surfaces and shapes. The objects, like other material she uses, vary depending on occasion and preconditions. She often chooses materials that break and reflect the light, create optical effects and lend her works life and movement. The collecting plays a substantial part of her work process. Commonly the object per se evokes thoughts and feelings at first. Then, during the collecting phase, ideas start to grow and slowly take shape. She Light and Dark Rectangular Installation statue, by Kirsten Hedstrom
has been collecting medicinal blisterpacks for many years. In each pack, she saw a reflection of the person who had pressed out the pill, as though the packs were storytellers. Some packs are pressed inward, handled in a rush. Others are neat and the transparent plastic around the pill has been put back into shape. Houses sometimes get to symbolize the ego and our concept of ourselves. By means of blisterpacks, thin offset plates, thin foam rubber and light Kerstin Hedström evokes thoughts on human togetherness, loneliness and desolation in the flickering light.
Artist Comment
Pushed Out (Light and Dark Installation statue)
by Kerstin Hedstrom
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