Jag räknar till 27

by Stina Siljing

Artist Stina Siljing (Sverige, född 1962)

Alternate Title

I count to 27

Date2021

MediumEngraving on untreated elm and silver leaf

DimensionsYttermått: 34 × 33 × 4 cm

ClassificationSculptures

Credit LinePurchase 2021 (Swedish Acquisitions 2021)

Countries

Sweden

Object NumberMOM/2021/267

CollectionsSvenska förvärv 2021

The artwork is not on display

About the artworkThoughts about how fragile life is, and what remains when life ends, infuse Stina Siljing’s artistic oeuvre. Her paintings focus on cell structures, the building blocks of all life in plants, animals and humans. She also began making objects out of organic materials that bear the traces of vanished existences. In I Count to 27, the artist has counted the year rings in a piece of elm wood. She has carved out the twenty-seventh ring and made an inlay of silver leaf. The work belongs to a series she made to process her loss and grief after her son’s suicide. The wood piece has the same dimensions as the scarf he always wore, and which he had hung up carefully at home.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Signerat och daterat med tusch på baksidan av konstverket: "Stina Siljing 2021" Selected exhibition history Nyförvärvsutställningen (den 5 februari 2022 - den 14 augusti 2022) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Skymningsland (den 29 oktober 2022 - den 9 april 2023) Moderna Museet Malmö

Works by the artist