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Insjön
© Barbro Bäckström/Bildupphovsrätt 2025
Insjön
Insjön
Photo: Åsa Lundén/Moderna Museet

Insjön

by Barbro Bäckström
Artist (Sverige, 1939 - 1990)
Alternate Title
  • The Lake
  • Lake Insjön
Date1981
MediumAsfalt, ristning på ritfilm
DimensionsBildmått: 120 × 200 cm
ClassificationPaintings
Credit LineDonation 1991 från Leif Alsheimer
Countries
Sweden
Object NumberMOMB 164
The artwork is not on display
About the artworkBarbro Bäckström's choice of materials reveals a joy in experimenting and great sensitivity. She often used industrial materials - concrete, plastic, asphalt and corten steel. The materials she used were not primarily associated with nature but with the 1960s urban reality, with an impersonal tone and mass-production. Barbro Bäckström grew up on the island of Vindö in the Stockholm archipelago and periodically took nature as her theme. Her works were never directly depictive, however, but attempt rather to portray movement and power and energy in transition. A complete stillness and calm reigns in the work Lake Insjön. By scratching into asphalt through a semi-transparent drawing paper, the artist evokes memories of a dark lake.