About
Kajsa G. Eriksson (she,her)
Sweden
Contact: kajsageriksson@gmail.com
Former full Professor in Art Education and with a PhD in Design at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, and with a Bachelor and Master's degree in Fine Art, Valand School of Fine Art, year 2000 at University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Eriksson is a place based visual artist who works within landscapes characterized by conflicts of interests, both human and non-human.
The bedrock is of particular interest and its connection to deep time and power to affect human perspectives.
The artist explores maps and archives together with artistic fieldwork and studio work. Materials are chosen or crafted on site to make concrete connections to the landscape. In exhibitions the landscape is integrated and shows up in different ways.
The overarching analogy is between landscape and body. The result reminds of irreversible loss, voids and stories of violence simultaneously as exploring resilience and animated forces of life and living.
In 2019 she was a visiting Fellow at Arizona State University teaching the topic course “Experimental Art in Public Space” at School of Art (SOA) at Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts (HIDA). She has exhibited in Sweden, Finland, Germany, UK and the USA.
The artist is a founder of and co-runs Vague Research Studios,
a platform for experimental artistic collaborative projects.