| Description |
'Saara Ekström's solo exhibition Limbus showcases photography and video art from the past five years of her career. Using an associative approach, Ekström inscribes the border zones of the psyche, the (mis)alignment of words and their meanings and the perpetual metamorphosis of bodies and matter. The Latin word limbus denotes a state of fundamental oblivion. It can also mean the border or edge of an anatomical part, such as the inner border of the brain's cortex. In Catholic theology, it is the afterlife condition of souls excluded from the beatific vision. Says the artist: "The beautiful and the repulsive are like the two poles of a ceaselessly swinging pendulum, repelling each other just as when the like poles of a magnet are brought together. When the two are forced to collide, it summons forth a third image that is fraught with precisely the kind of conflicted tension that I want to capture in my art."' |