In Ohlsson’s work, free association draws from a chaotic melting pot of cultural and personal references. As much as different issues are mixed, his use of different mediums together, breaks ‘open’ the exhibition format, going from drawing, sculptures, installation, text to music.
From his background as electro musician, Ohlsson composes his visual work in a similar way, in which meanings are layered, becoming something different than what they would be separate from each other. A visual rhythm between the combined parts keeps the piece together becoming a new experience on its own.
By the use of text or literal references from political situations to very personal feelings or reflections, Ohlsson anchors the experience the work transmits to a very accessible scale for an audience since they might connect to similar ways of feeling and thinking.
After an intense year of travelling around the world and having new experiences, Ohlsson finds himself in a moment of concentration and intense production, to put out in new works all the things that stayed behind in him and left a trace: from Rio de Janeiro and its …Favela scene and baile funk, filled with machine guns, loud music, hot girls, coke and weird architecture, the torture debate in USA which the artist visualizes as …Cate Blanchet in Lord of the Rings as a holy white elf-angel torturing little orc-muslims, to coming back home with a feeling of being rootless, wondering where his real home is.
The opening
The opening of “O.T.” will take place on the 5th of June at 7pm. The show will be on display from the 6th till the 27th of June, on Thursday to Saturday from 1 to 5pm.