Moa Israelsson

In the exhibition Another Now artist Moa Israelsson creates an artificial landscape where art imitates nature. The objects appear authentic, as if they were strange relics of a civilization gone haywire and taken care of by nature. The sculptures in the central installation Go Gone brings to mind sleeping bags or giant pupae that hatched and now hang empty and abandoned in the room.

The boundary between reality and fiction is deliberately diffuse in Israelsson's artistic expression. The artworks are painstakingly executed by hand in metal, acrylic composite, silk, latex and leather. She works from a real object as a model, which through repeated copying and distortions she makes appear similar but not authentic. The expression creates a duplicity and an uneasy feeling that something is real but still not.

Moa Israelsson was born in 1982 in Ljungby, lives and works in Åkers Styckebruk in Sörmland. In 2010 she graduated from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and has since participated in several solo and group exhibitions in Sweden and internationally. Israelsson has collaborated with a number of galleries such as Angelika Knäpper Gallery, Lars Bohman Gallery and Galerie Forsblom. Among other things, she is represented at the Danish Arts Council.

Thanks to: Värnamo Municipality, Region Jönköping County and Region Kronoberg

^{Photos: Anders Bergön}