OH OMEN

Solo Show 24.04 - 22.06.2025
Norwegian Sculptors Society, Oslo, Norway
Curated by Tatiana Lozano

Text by Emma Lomell
Photos by Istvan Virag

How can one cultivate the fragile? Madelen Isa Lindgren weaves together glass, metal, and leather to present a world where vulnerability and strength exists in a mutual dependence. 

Hanging from the ceiling and resting on a steel frameworks, her sculptural forms resemble fractured cocoons or fossilized vessels—artifacts caught in a state of flux. Something has broken through, or perhaps been left behind. These forms exist between emergence and decay, suggestive of both origin and aftermath, ancient yet oddly futuristic. Their surfaces—dark, metallic, fertile—gesture toward life suspended in transformation.

In Lindgren’s installations, metal transforms into its own flora—bearing weight, shaping refuge, and forming both shield and chamber. Fragile glass rests within these forms, not hidden but deliberately upheld in a gesture of mutual trust and elevation.

The sculptures demonstrate that the primordial and the futuristic do not necessarily stand in opposition, and that protection and defense can merge into new shapes and symbols. In Oh Omen, we enter a liminal space where the boundaries between the natural and the engineered, the molecular and the structural, begin to dissolve. Subtle pulses of light flicker softly, conveying messages known only to themselves.

A sacred atmosphere rests over the rooms.