Emelié Sterner, Knuckle down, bro (Performance). Photo: Tara Power.

Press Release, February 2021

Students in their second year of Fine Art at HDK-Valand are inviting you to the group exhibition Can we take this offline? We present separate works with the common denominator being the collaboration necessary to grow and evolve as a group of artists in training.

We are in the midst of an all-encompassing societal change, where spaces we once knew are suddenly not what they used to be. We navigate in risk-assessed, empty echoing rooms. This is due in part to the pandemic – but society is always moving in some direction, twisting and changing shape. Art finds its way into the voids and the in-betweens. The exhibition takes place in a former bank, where spatial conditions are currently under transformation, but traces of what once was are still there. The terms of collaboration are also going through a metamorphosis – being conducted in a digital fashion, but now manifesting in a physical form. What happens with the traces left in this case? A space is not defined by its designated purpose, but by the individuals that inhabit it. We ask: Can We Take This Offline? Forming a question that expresses the desire to talk informally, outside of protocol and monitoring.

Artists: Marie Florin, Sally Karlsson, Emelié Sterner, Joseph Linderoth, Lisa Liljeström, Noah Holtegaard, Erik Ernsäter, Viggo Mattsson, Ti Karlsson, Lisa Broms, Tara Power, Anna Holmberg, Caroline Uggla, Linnéa M. F. Larsson, Yrsa Petersson, Sophie Boggis-Rolfe.

The exhibition will be shown to limited groups of a maximum of six people as well as online. It is mandatory to wear a mask when visiting the exhibition!

Opening: Friday the 26th of February, 4-8 pm.
Exhibition period: 27th of February - 7th of March, 2021.

Anna Holmberg, Please be my spirit animal, take the pain away.
Photo: Lisa Broms.

Caroline Uggla, At the margins (Excavation). Photo: Lisa Broms.

Erik Ernsäter, Woman behind the voice at 200 airports, Lejon och grenuttag, Cowboy & Pappan. Photo: Lisa Broms.

Joseph Linderoth, FYP “I have a very nice feed right now...”.
Photo: Lisa Broms.

Sophie Boggis-Rolfe, Introduction instruction. Photo: Lisa Broms.

Lisa Broms, HEIGHT OF SUMMER. Photo: Lisa Broms.

Linnéa M. F. Larsson, Tracing patterns. Photo: Lisa Broms.

Lisa Liljeström, This must be the place, But something makes me wanna leave. Photo: Lisa Broms.

Marie Florin. Photo: Tara Power.

Noah Holtegaard, En Kærlekshistoria. Photo: Lisa Broms.

Sally Karlsson och Emelié Sterner, INSTRUKTIONER/NUTRITIONS.
Photo: Tara Power.

Tara Power, REJECT REJECTS REJECTION. Photo: Tara Power.

Sally Karlsson. Photo: Tara Power.

Viggo Mattsson, Hanging on by a thread.
Photo: Lisa Broms.

Ti Karlsson, Ek-lek. Photo: Lisa Broms.

Yrsa Petersson, A memory of the future. Photo: Lisa Broms.

Yrsa Petersson, A memory of the future. Photo: Lisa Broms.