The Swedish artist Amanda Moström deals primarily with the erotic, albeit in an unconventional sense. Subtly humorous and rich in psychosexual undertones, her photographic work frequently appropriates familiar imagery and transforms it into something more provocative and intimate, complicating it with restaging or re-contextualisation. Her interest in expansive forms of sensuality extends to her bronzes, which upend the medium’s associations with solemnity and multiplicity by existing as one-off pieces that are deliberately imperfect, showing signs of human touch. Moström is inspired by the writing of the theorist Audre Lorde, who was quick to separate eroticism from the strictly pornographic or explicit, reclassifying it as “the personification of love in all its aspects.” Throughout her practice, Moström explores the conceptual and physical potential of softness, upending a cultural hierarchy that often prizes hardness and solidity instead, both materially and emotionally. The resulting works coax the viewer, made complicit by the act of looking, into confronting their own boundaries and preconceptions.
b. 1991, Umeå, Sweden (SE)
Lives and works between Ålbo, SE and London, UK
BA Fine Art Sculpture, City and Guilds, London, UK
itsanosofadog *It’s an arse of a dog, Rose Easton, London, UK
Participating in a chair, Castor, London, UK
Matriarch beach, Galerie Chloe Salgado, Paris, FR
Doing it in the park, doing it after dark, Castor, London, UK
SL x RE, Silke Lindner, New York, US
The Reactor, The Sunday Painter, London, UK
SEX, Rose Easton, London, UK
Under the volcano, Studio Block m74, Mexico City, MX
Room 237, Bubenberg and Contemporaines, Paris, FR
Hopp och Lek Pt.2, a collaborative project with Lucas Dupuy, Block House, Tokyo, JP
Architecture of Change, Void Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Block 336, London, UK
Greta and Enid, Performed conversation with Ruby Wroe, Kunstinstitut Melly, Rotterdam, NL
Internal Exhibitions