5 July 2025–5 October 2025
Opening July 5, 12–4 pm
Johanna Gustafsson Fürst, artist and professor of fine art with specialization in sculptural processes at the Royal Institute of Art, is hosting this summer’s main exhibition at Marabouparken konsthall. The exhibition Everyone in Their Storm, All of Us in This Weather consists of a group of sculptures that in themselves as well as together create different dramas – depictions of power, lies, tenderness, pitifulness and stupidity.
Marabouparken describes works that addresses the fundaments of the human condition, existentially and politically – about our capacity for action and language in a violent time like this: ”Gustafsson Fürst has dealt with that incapacitating void through these sculpted bodies, not with argumentation and information aimed at confronting the paralysis caused by a language of politics that disrupts understanding but attempting instead to reclaim agency and create meaning.”
Johanna Gustafsson Fürst:
“The near-to-impossibility of translating a state or a feeling into a physical material produces an abundance of meaning. To try again and again in an attempt to get closer, generates new impulses to translate. Standing in front of a sculpture, a physical body next to ours, often creates surprising twists and turns that provide different answers than the ones I thought I was looking for. In this pursuit in and towards impossibility, a space is formed where a paralysing void can be transformed into dialogue, suddenly providing a space to inhabit. We turn to art to be disrupted in a normative way of thinking, to approach what we did not yet know and to make room for thinking. The gaps and intricacies of art are not meant to ensnare, but to nuance, to complicate, and to prepare an emotional space that can become a place of resistance.”
Everyone in Their Storm, All of Us in This Weather fills the big gallery hall. The installation consists of with around fifteen sculptures. Some have been shown in previous contexts, but here they form a new whole together with newly produced works.
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