Nollpunkt by Linda Ottosson and Olle Olls

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Olle Olls, Linda Ottosson

The droplets are hand-raised in copper and brass and nickel-plated to an almost impossibly reflective finish, mirroring the room and the viewer. A hard and enduring material is made to embody something fluid and fleeting. The work captures a moment of transformation: melting ice, the loss of solid ground and a world in crisis, but also our own smallness in the face of the forces of nature.

Craftsmanship is central to both artists’ practices. Through traditional silversmithing techniques, familiar forms are shifted, taking on new proportions and meanings. There is a desire to push the material beyond the expected, but also a fascination with the making itself: the hammer blows, the repetition and the time required to slowly raise a form from a sheet of metal.

What has long been frozen begins to give way. Ice turns to water, fixed boundaries dissolve, and landscapes change. It happens slowly and violently at the same time. A transformation so vast that it can be difficult to perceive while it is taking place.

We are living in the midst of this change. Glaciers are retreating, winters are growing shorter, and places shaped by ice are changing or disappearing. It is easy to observe this from a distance, as numbers, graphs and images from places far away. Harder is to grasp what it actually means that something which existed long before us may be gone after us.
 
The exhibition is presented with support from the Swedish Arts Council and Region Jämtland Härjedalen.
 

About the artists
Olle Olls is a silversmith and artist based in Stockholm and holds a Master’s degree from Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design (1995). His work has been exhibited in Sweden and internationally, including at Galleri Montan, Millesgården and Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. Olls is represented in the collection of Nationalmuseum.
 
Linda Ottosson is an artist and sculptor based in Stockholm and holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design (2018). Her work has been exhibited in Sweden and internationally, including at Göteborgs Konstförening, Ebelingmuseet, Millesgården, SAC in Bucharest and Galerie Marzee in the Netherlands. Ottosson has also completed several public art commissions in Sweden.