5:3

by Ida Persson

Artist Ida Persson (Sverige, född 1985)

Date2020

MediumAcrylic paint on canvas

DimensionsBildmått: 260 × 190 cm Yttermått: 260 × 190 × 3,7 cm

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchase 2021 (Swedish Acquisitions 2021)

Countries

Sweden

Object NumberMOM/2021/371

CollectionsRecent Acquisitions, Svenska förvärv 2021

The artwork is not on display

About the artworkIda Persson’s paintings manifest an ambivalence to power. With their clinically smooth surfaces and mechanical precision, the structures, equipment and monumental facades can inspire a sense of trust and security, but also the opposite: vulnerability and violence. Moreover, the viewer approaches these paintings from below at an angle, so the motifs seem to tower above us like high-rise buildings. Sometimes, the architectonic or mechanical elements have human or super-human features. As if the buildings have become part of a body, or the body has been incorporated in a machine. In the grooves between the perfectly-joined parts, there are sometimes visible traces of red paint or blood. Organic, intractable and grubby life – which is tamed or erased with architecture in different ways – is constantly threatening to break free or seep back in.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Signerad på baksidan på dukens nedre omvikningskant: Ida Persson 2020 The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Vindar från Jeriko / Winds from Jericho [Moderna Museet Malmö 15/5 -29/8 2021]

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