Shifters by Alexander Blank and Barbara Posch
Exhibition
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29 Aug 2026
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26 Sep 2026
Published: 18.08.2026
Brooch: Bones & All, 2025
Corian and silver
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Hands are tools that make things happen. They cook, build, clap rhythms, make fires, kill and heal, and nowadays they swipe and press all sorts of buttons. It seems like they are mostly intended to carry out what the brain has planned, but there is another story.
What if the hands had enough?
What if they wanted to break free and create a new reality?
Artist list
Alexander Blank, Barbara PoschIn Alexander Blank's latest work, we get a glimpse of this speculative evolutionary path where hands and fingers become independent and free - become themselves.
Hands also have a central place in Barbara Posch's series of drawings With our different tools. When she draws, her hand and pen form a connection between her mind space and her physical space. In the mind space, there is no finished image - it emerges as a result of the collaboration between nerve signals, the motor skills of the hand and the function of the pen. During the process, she discovers things that lead her further. Together, the hand and the pen create the development.
Hands also have a central place in Barbara Posch's series of drawings With our different tools. When she draws, her hand and pen form a connection between her mind space and her physical space. In the mind space, there is no finished image - it emerges as a result of the collaboration between nerve signals, the motor skills of the hand and the function of the pen. During the process, she discovers things that lead her further. Together, the hand and the pen create the development.
Opening Saturday, August 29th, 13.00 - 16.00
Artist talk with Alexander Blank, Barbara Posch and Julia Obermaier at 14.00
The exhibition runs until September 26 2026
The artist talk is a collaboration between Four, Galleri Smedjan, Röbäck Glas & Lera, Samtida Konsthantverk i Västerbotten and IASPIS, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee´s International Programme for Visual and Applied Arts. Julia Obermaier, who participates in the talk with Alexander and Barbara, is currently doing an Artist-in-Residence in Östersund and her exhibition What we keep is running at Galleri Smedjan until September 5th.
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