Theresa Traore Dahlberg will present this summer's solo exhibition at Carl Eldhs Ateljemuseum. For the exhibition, Traore Dahlberg has worked primarily with new and site-specific works. Here we encounter sculptures in melted bronze, copper, hand-blown glass and yarn – materials that carry their own memories.
- I have approached the studio through never-before-seen archive material and the tactile tenderness that I experience in several of Carl Eldh's sculptures. In my exhibition, I want to explore the garden as a place and figure, as a border phenomenon that raises questions about the tension between chance and control in play and nature. A state that invites imaginary worlds and hidden tales, says Theresa Traore Dahlberg.
In dialogue with the studio and the surrounding garden, the museum's inherent history is also brought to life. The story of Elise and Brita Eldh, their close relationship, between a mother and daughter, is put in a new light. Through Theresa's gaze, we see for the first time a composite selection of visuals from the family's time in Los Angeles during the early 20th century. Dreamy, playful and sometimes suggestive images, which in their documentary form works as a capsule of a bygone era.
In late summer, the museum, together with Filmform, invites audiences to a film screening in the sculpture garden. A selection of films that the artist herself has curated will be shown to illuminate the exhibition's themes in new ways. The exhibition at Carl Eldhs Ateljémuseum will be Traore Dahlberg's first major solo museum exhibition in Stockholm.
In conjunction with the exhibition, a catalogue will be published with in-depth texts that stem from conversations between the artist and invited authors, poets and researchers. Artist Martina Hoogland Ivanow has been invited to interpret Traore Dahlberg's artistry in a series of analogue images. The catalogue's graphic design was developed by art director Maja Kölqvist.
For more information, please visit Carl Eldhs Ateljémuseum's website.
Photo: Martina Hoogland Ivanov
