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Lovisa Ringborg – The Living Room

Past exhibition
24 August - 14 October 2023
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Lovisa Ringborg – The Living Room

Cecilia Hillström Gallery is pleased to present The Living Room – Lovisa Ringborg’s fifth exhibition at the gallery. The new project features photography and sculpture, centring around an interior setting where reddish-pink tones bring the works together. In the photographic work, Ringborg has combined daylight and infrared light, which captures the presence of heat as well as visible light.

 

In previous works, Ringborg has used nature as a means of reflecting on a state of mind, a projection surface for inner thoughts, ideas and emotions. Depictions of landscapes with neat gardens contrast overhanging wild nature growing beyond the property lines – the safe and familiar vis-à-vis the hidden and unknown. In this exhibition, however, Ringborg focuses on an interior setting overlooking an unadorned room. Small aspects suggest life – the unmade bed, the textiles over the chair and the warm lights glowing. We do not see beyond the interior or what is out there – we only experience the room. Small shifts occur image by image. Isolated snapshots from a distant memory keep transforming detail by detail. The room becomes both a safe space as well as closed and claustrophobic, void of impressions from the outside.

 

In the sculptural work of a sleeping boy on a bed, the terracotta hues of clay offer a more earthy and flesh-like appearance. The sheets on the bed transform into shed skin, a possibility for change and metamorphoses.

 

The smaller works of still life accompany the larger photographs of the room and windows. The texture of memory is present in many of the works in the show. Pressed and dried flowers are placed side by side with bottles filled with warm water radiating heat at different temperatures – small clues relating to the room or a specific event that took place there, like fragments of a memory. The bottles with connotations of apothecary or medical use indicate some sort of measuring – of different states, where something begins and ends. Nature is present in the show in one of the photographs – an unattended and wild landscape where lupine flowers grow at the roadside. It seems to be more of a vague memory of a summer night, both inviting and nostalgic but also ominous and ghostly, rather than an actual outlook from the room. 

 

There is always a heightened tension present in the works by Lovisa Ringborg. Whether be it an enhanced reality, a dream state or a secluded room in one’s subconsciousness, Ringborg brings forth a convincing new project filled with the possibilities of seduction, tenderness and something uncanny, hard to grasp.

 

Lovisa Ringborg holds an MFA from the School of Photography at Gothenburg University. Ringborg's works have been presented at Fotografiska Stockholm, Norrköping Art Museum, Varbergs Konsthall, Skellefteå Konsthall, Alma Löv Museum, Vänersborgs Konsthall, Gotlands Museum, Hasselblad Center, Bonniers Konsthall, Passagen/Linköpings Konsthall, Kulturhuset in Stockholm as well as in exhibitions in Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, USA and South Korea. She was awarded the Edstrandska Foundation Scholarship in 2012 and the Victor Scholarship from the Hasselblad Foundation in 2010. Ringborg is represented in the collection of Moderna Museet, Norrköping Art Museum, Borås Art Museum, Hasselblad Foundation, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Holland, the Public Art Agency Sweden, Region Stockholm and Stockholm konst.

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Installation Views
  • Installation view, Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room, 2023, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
    Installation view, Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room, 2023, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
  • Installation view, Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room, 2023, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
    Installation view, Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room, 2023, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
  • Installation view, Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room, 2023, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
    Installation view, Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room, 2023, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
  • Installation view, Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room, 2023, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
    Installation view, Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room, 2023, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
  • Installation view, Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room, 2023, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
    Installation view, Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room, 2023, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
  • Installation view, Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room, 2023, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
    Installation view, Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room, 2023, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
  • Installation view, Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room, 2023, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
    Installation view, Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room, 2023, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
  • Installation view, Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room, 2023, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
    Installation view, Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room, 2023, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
  • Installation view, Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room, 2023, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
    Installation view, Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room, 2023, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
  • Installation view, Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room, 2023, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
    Installation view, Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room, 2023, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
  • Installation view, Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room, 2023, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
    Installation view, Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room, 2023, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
  • Installation view, Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room, 2023, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
    Installation view, Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room, 2023, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
  • Installation view, Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room, 2023, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
    Installation view, Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room, 2023, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
Works
  • Lovisa Ringborg, The Window View, 2023
    Lovisa Ringborg, The Window View, 2023
  • Lovisa Ringborg, Wanderer, 2023
    Lovisa Ringborg, Wanderer, 2023
  • Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room (Bed), 2023
    Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room (Bed), 2023
  • Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room (Window), 2023
    Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room (Window), 2023
  • Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room (Chair), 2023
    Lovisa Ringborg, The Living Room (Chair), 2023
  • Lovisa Ringborg, Spirits I, 2023
    Lovisa Ringborg, Spirits I, 2023
  • Lovisa Ringborg, Spirits II, 2023
    Lovisa Ringborg, Spirits II, 2023
  • Lovisa Ringborg, Warm Waters (38 Degrees), 2023
    Lovisa Ringborg, Warm Waters (38 Degrees), 2023
  • Lovisa Ringborg, Warm Waters (42 Degrees), 2023
    Lovisa Ringborg, Warm Waters (42 Degrees), 2023
  • Lovisa Ringborg, The Missing Bottle, 2023
    Lovisa Ringborg, The Missing Bottle, 2023
  • Lovisa Ringborg, Fall Flower I, 2023
    Lovisa Ringborg, Fall Flower I, 2023
  • Lovisa Ringborg, Fall Flower II, 2023
    Lovisa Ringborg, Fall Flower II, 2023
  • Lovisa Ringborg, Gatherer, 2023
    Lovisa Ringborg, Gatherer, 2023
  • Lovisa Ringborg, Hunter, 2023
    Lovisa Ringborg, Hunter, 2023
  • Lovisa Ringborg, Wild Flowers, 2023
    Lovisa Ringborg, Wild Flowers, 2023
Video
Press
  • "Genom infrarött filter och långa exponeringstider framkallar Lovisa Ringborgs svit av stora och mindre färgfotografier.

    Magnus Bons , Konsten.net, 11 September 2023
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  • "Förförisk färgglädje och naturkontakt när Stockholms gallerier säsongsöppnar"

    Bo Madestrand, DN, 30 August 2023
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  • "Förtrollat landskap... en stark uppstart"

    Dan Backman, SvD, 25 August 2023
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