1979 Malmö, Sweden
Image, Space and Image-SpaceI paint imaginary objects inside an imaginary space. The objects that I paint are portraits of my thoughts. The pictorial space, which I already in an initial stage decide to treat as empty, provides a place for these thought-objects to exist in. The pictorial space has a great conceptual potential whereas the surface is a physical fact. By relating these imaginary objects to the edge of the picture-plane I want to acknowledge this border that separates pictorial- and actual space, and bring attention to the painting as an object in itself. The painting as an object deals with actual space. The painting as a picture deals with imaginary space. In this way my works relate both inwards and outwards, both to the physical and to the non-physical aspect of painting.
