Klara Lidén

Klara Lidén has already achieved striking international success, much greater than is generally understood here in Sweden. She has serious museum experience, for example a solo exhibition at the New Museum in New York curated by Massimiliano Gioni from the Venice Biennale. She has kept to her own path, strictly avoiding the mainstream. Both in her films and installations we meet an artist who shuns everyday paradigms and who refuses to let herself be incorporated into society’s social and cultural structures. She breaks these down and builds them up, taking something from their context and giving them new living space in another place. There is a forceful nakedness and honesty in Klara Lidén’s art as she uncompromisingly shifts perspective and customary notions. This is a matter of the private contra the public sphere, normative contrasted with what challenges, both in art and in society in general.