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Johan Söderström
Norway
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Exhibition Speaking Stones - Johan Söderström
14 pieces
Artist highlights
- Major permanent collection
- Prizewinner
- Favorited by galleries
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Cement on Wood
- Other details : Artwork on wood. Artwork framed.
- Dimensions : 33.1x25.2in
About this artwork
64x84 cm | Filler, pine panel
All my works are cast with ordinary wall filler (not cement)
This work explores the flatness and plasticity of language. We experience the world through it: a membrane that settles over raw matter, concealing it even as it makes it intelligible.
Language and desire are intertwined. Entering language enables subjective perception, yet it also separates us from the external world and our own bodies. A distance emerges… — a lack.
From this lack, desire is born: a drive to reunite with the material world and overcome alienation. Though unconscious, it fuels human activity beyond biological needs.
The title refers to a Lacanian concept often left untranslated from French.
All my works are cast with ordinary wall filler (not cement)
This work explores the flatness and plasticity of language. We experience the world through it: a membrane that settles over raw matter, concealing it even as it makes it intelligible.
Language and desire are intertwined. Entering language enables subjective perception, yet it also separates us from the external world and our own bodies. A distance emerges… — a lack.
From this lack, desire is born: a drive to reunite with the material world and overcome alienation. Though unconscious, it fuels human activity beyond biological needs.
The title refers to a Lacanian concept often left untranslated from French.
Johan Söderström
Norway
« I am interested in process-based painting, and the profound solitude of the human mind. While exploring one, I sometimes try to formulate something about the other, and how it affects our relationship with the outside world. »
Johan Söderström is a nationally-distinguished Norwegian painter. His works consist of layers of filler where various fields are laid beside each other, like pieces in a puzzle, and he uses his unique technique to emphasize cracks, textures and other aspects the material's own history. He primarily explores the theme of human alienation, and aims to ensure that his aesthetic can be perceived in ways simple enough to diminish the distance between viewer and work.
Credentials
- Major permanent collection
- Prizewinner
- Favorited by galleries
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
Johan Söderström
#584 Jouissance
$2,870
