MADELEN ISA LINDGREN

• HEAVEN AND HELL,
• IN ROOTS THEY ARE LONG (2024)
  
  
• Graduation Show  19.04 - 05.05.2025
• Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
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• Art Direction by Michael Stumpf

The work explores verticality as a symbol in mythology and architecture, ranging from the Tower of Babel and Mount Olympus to modern skyscrapers. Such structures express both ambition and vulnerability, reflecting humanity’s need for direction and belonging. At the same time, they carry the possibility of decay and transformation, inviting reflection on the human desire to move beyond the material.

The sculpture draws on the Corinthian column’s combination of construction and ornamentation, investigating how the ornament can function both as a narrative and symbolic form. In the sculpture, this is transformed into a plant-like structure growing upward, an image that represents both nature’s logic and architectural striving.

Through repeated forms and subtle shifts, a rhythm of growth and mutation takes shape. The classical order is broken in favor of a more corporeal expression, where the ornament becomes an active narrative. The sculpture invites viewers to look at architectural symbols, detached from their original function and here activated as a space for transformation.

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