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 uses glass, metal, and leather to present a world where the vulnerable and the solid are inextricably linked.

Hanging from the ceiling and resting on a metal bed, we see extraterrestrial glass forms resembling cracked cocoons. Has something or someone broken out? Has it just happened, or is it something from long ago? Is the cocoon itself an organism? 
The dark and metallic surface is strong and durable, while the organic form appears fertile and alive. We are confronted with something that is both ancient and futuristic, something that seems frozen in time or represents an entirely different time.

In Lindgren’s sculptural installations, metal functions as its own flora, capable of forming both shields and nests. The fragile glass is supported by the metal forms, as if they have chosen to trust each other. The fragile is not enclosed or hidden, but upheld and elevated.

The sculptures demonstrate that the primordial and the future do not necessarily stand in opposition, and that the technological and the botanical can merge into new symbols. In oh omen, we enter a distinct time that dissolves the relationship between the natural and architectural, the molecular and structural. Subtle light sources blink toward us, communicating something known only to them. 

A sacred atmosphere rests over the rooms.