ISSUES

ISSUES presents the second solo show at the gallery with abstract painter Ida Persson. Two years ago, in Ida’s first show with ISSUES, we saw the Caretaker triptych where each of the large paintings portrayed a Conductor. Amongst Ida Persson’s categories of subjects, the Conductor is an abstract architectural being with arms that may conduct, control but also embrace and protect. In her new exhibition at the gallery, Safeguard, four large paintings each show suspended diamond-shaped structures with protruding spikes, titled Anchor I–IV. The aggressive form of an anchor has the function of harbouring in a storm, which brings to mind the dynamics of safety and aggression in human interaction. We are delighted to be showing Ida Persson’s further illumination of psychology and politics in abstract and architectural forms.

The exhibition is accompanied by a text written by Victoria Percovich Gutierrez, founder of CSAM (Centrum för studier av markanvändning)

IDA PERSSON (b. Ystad, 1985) lives in Nybrostrand and works in Löderup in Österlen in South Sweden. She was trained at Umeå Art Academy by, amongst others, painter Ann Edholm. In 2023, Ida Persson was awarded the Sparbanksstiftelsen Skåne’s culture grant. She was the recipient of the Bærtling Scholarship in 2019, the City of Malmö Culture Grant in 2017 and in 2015, she won the prestigious Fredrik Roos Award “for developing a personal imagery that reveals the power of relationships in society”.

Solo shows include Stranger Walls at Pumphuset, Landskrona (2024); Caretaker at ISSUES, Stockholm (2023); Numbness and Serenity at both Ystads Konstmuseum, Ystad (2023) and Varbergs Konsthall, Varberg (2022) and Docile Bodies at Erik Nordenhake, Stockholm (2017). Group exhibitions include Twilight Land at Moderna Museet Malmö, Malmö (2022); Portionsavund at Konst- närshuset, Stockholm (2022); Downtown Issues I and II at ISSUES (2021, 2023); Modernautställningen at Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2018) and Swedish Art: Now! at Sven-Harrys konstmuseum, Stockholm (2016).