"Every time the sun comes up I'm in trouble" - Ingvild Hovland Kaldal.

Since 2013 she has been working with charcoal drawings, and this exhibition also shows several smaller works done in pastel. In recent years she has investigated the intuitive processes of drawing, with a particular interest in the borderland between the psychic, the subconscious and the hallucinatory. Drawing functions as both a method and an investigation – an opportunity to let conscious control be lifted and let the images emerge through an intuitive process. The artist has described the process as the result of a high fever, where the fever becomes a symbol for a magical or transformative state.

Her works arise in direct dialogue with the materials, where spontaneous movements and physical traces become an integral part of the expression. The physicality of drawing and using the body in large and small movements to express oneself becomes a meditative practice where the body's capacity and intuition are attached to the sheet. Traces of this process, such as scratches, fingerprints, stains and tears, become part of the finished work. Like the artist, the medium is also shaped by its surroundings in the process of creation, there is a mutual influence between the work and the world. With an approach that encompasses both the vulnerable, the humorous and the absurd, Kaldal investigates how inner experiences can emerge in visual form. Her artistry is characterized by a willingness to work closely with the unpredictable, where process and presence are as central as the finished work.


Ingvild Hovland Kaldal (b.1985 Trondheim) lives and works in Malmö, SE. She has a master's degree from the Malmö Academy of Fine Arts (2015). She participated in the 2016 Drawing Biennale in Oslo, and has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Norway, Finland, Germany and the USA in addition to Sweden. In Trondheim, she has previously exhibited at Galleri Blunk (2007).