MADELEN ISA LINDGREN

NOTHIING PETALS CANNOT SAY, RESTING IN THE WORLDS BONE

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25.07 - 31.07.2025

Solo Show
Forhallen, Stavanger, Norway

Curated by Sandra Vaka

Rooted in botanical anatomy, growth, and decay the exhibition presents a scenario where the past and a distant future collide. Within this space, a duality unfolds between what has been lost and what re-emerges, a condition reminiscent of a hypothetical archaeological discovery, where the remnants of something once alive testify to both destruction and survival.

Lindgren translates concepts such as camouflage and protection into sculptural survival strategies. Through material and formal choices, she creates objects that appear to exist in a frozen metamorphosis. Organic life is imitated, but held in a state that challenges the distinction between what is alive and what has lost its vitality.

The exhibition gradually shifts from the organic to the static, and from the living to the non-living. This transition is mirrored in works that bear traces of nature’s cycles, and explores forms and expressions of survival, where nature’s resilience and vulnerability coexist. Lindgren invites the viewer to reflect on the passage of time, the impermanence of life, and the possibility of transformation even in moments marked by stillness and dissolution.

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