Utställningssamtal

Carlos Mínguez Carrasco & Maria Safronova Wahlström

(the talk will be in English, frågor kan ställas på svenska)

(SV)
Carlos Mínguez Carrasco och Maria Safronova Wahlström kommer att ha ett samtal i samband med konstnärens separatutställning på Köttinspektionen. Det är ett tillfälle att fördjupa sig i Safronova Wahlströms praktik och att diskutera frågor kring den nytta och de begärskänslor som design skapar i samhället. Konsumtion och skapande som ständigt närvarande begrepp i det samtida livet kommer också att tas upp. Efter samtalet är publiken välkommen att ställa frågor till gästerna.

(EN)

Carlos Mínguez Carrasco and Maria Safronova Wahlström will have a public conversation around the artist solo-exhibition at Köttinspektionen. It is a chance to deepen into Safronova Wahlström's practice and engage in questions around the utility and desire-feeling that design generates in society. Consumption and creation as ever-present concepts in contemporary life would also be addressed. After the conversation the public is welcome to raise questions to the guests.

Carlos Mínguez Carrasco is an architect and curator based in Stockholm. He is Chief Curator at ArkDes, the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design. Previously, between 2012 and 2017 he was Associate Curator at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, and was Assistant Curator of OfficeUS, the U.S. Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale. In 2016 he organized the Oslo Architecture Triennale with the After Belonging Agency. Since 2018 at ArkDes, Mínguez Carrasco oversees the content production of the museum, ranging from exhibitions to public programs, publications, and digital projects, as well as the collections management, research, and its presentation and dissemination to the public. He has taught at Columbia University GSAPP and lectured in several universities and cultural centers internationally.

Maria Safronova Wahlström (b. 1989, Moscow) is an artist based in Gothenburg. She works with sculpture, installation, and graphics, with a focus on our collective behavior, beliefs, and language practices. In her work she tries to reflect on collective identities, social myths, and ideological trends. In her projects, she focuses on the opposition between conceptual and visual form, contemporary and historical references —striving to highlight the absurd through playful expression and humor. She uses stone, plastic, metal, wood and "found objects", which with their respective qualities, history and provenance are brought into dialogue with techniques of engraving, sculpting, casting, UV and screen printing. Maria Safronova Wahlström earned her MFA in Fine Art from Valand Academy in 2019. Her work has been exhibited at (X)sites Biennial, Ars Electronica Festival, Galleri Candyland in Stockholm, Göteborgs Konsthall, the Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius, Galleri Jean-Pierre Gros in Paris, and the Tbilisi History Museum.

Photo of Maria Safronova Wahlström: Barthélémy Garcia