Ida Ekblad - Low Tide Bring Da Ruckus - West London Projects - London

through December 10th 2011

Through paintings and sculptures Ida creates combinations of forms that are both symbolic and aesthetic. Works have an energy and distinction, a bold lyricism and a vibrancy relating to the city. This urban context is perhaps most apparent in her sculptural works, which incorporate items found by chance from the street or skip and usually taken from around the cities in which she is making the artwork. Scavenged and salvaged parts have a seeming need to retain or extract the essential, from the discarded remnants of contemporary culture. They retain a sharpness to them, even a violence, as they are left in their original forms, found by Ida on her rummages through piles of demolished and industrial detritus. Once taken back to the studio they become incorporated together within vibrant and visually inventive compositions, creating free-associations and suggestions between each other. Once exhibited, these sculptural forms often simply rest on the gallery floor almost suggesting our own finding of remnants of the everyday.

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