ELLINOR ÅSLUND
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2024. A series of ceramic sculptures, videos and performance.
Photos: Malle Madsen
From the exhibition Caring Absurdities at Wilson Saplana Gallery, curated by Nanna Saplana.
Text by Nanna Saplana:
On the gallery floor, Ellinor Åslund presents a mixed-media installation of large-scale ceramic sculptures. Here two cute, disheveled and jewelry-like parrots caringly hold hands and stand guard around a large decorative fabergé egg. Inside the egg is a stage on which the parrots' lives are shown. In one area there is a tree for the birds to happily sit on and in another two birds are captured in a claustrophobic cage. Lastly a larger bird, with lazes and fancy shiny red booths, caringly sits and carries two baby parrots in their lap. This figure is possibly depicting the artist’s grandmother who’s two noisy, but very much loved, parrots the installation is inspired by. In another part of the gallery, a mixed imagery video of 3D cans, animation, and opera music, is playing inside the glasses of two over-dimensional, decorative sunglasses, inspired by the grandmother’s extravagant wardrobe. Here we learn more about the family history of the parrots who tragically lost their parents, a tongue, and almost their minds.
Performance at the exhibition opening at Wilson Saplana Gallery 31st of may 2024.