Jakob Ojanen (b. 1980) is a Stockholm-based artist working in painting, sculpture, and installation. His points of departure often lie in what is left aside in the urban landscape: building materials, stones, graffiti, and forgotten fragments. These elements are collected, repositioned, and reshaped into unexpected structures that both challenge and renegotiate our perception of urban space, humanity’s place within it, and the invisible processes unfolding around us. His works reflect an ongoing dynamic in which the material’s history and the energy of the present meet in a new visual form.

In "entropy", we encounter Ojanen’s painting, revealing an interest in the material’s own dynamics. Ojanen explores how color, gesture, and material can embody movement and temporal shifts; how layers can be built up and partially erased, only to reemerge in new combinations. The viewer encounters paintings in which light, form, and rhythm seem to change depending on focus and angle, and where each detail can be experienced as both momentary and eternal. The works acquire a paradoxical quality: they stand still on the wall yet simultaneously carry an undercurrent of movement—a pulsating layer of time, energy, and material presence.

Colour, texture, and gesture interact in layers that are built up, washed away, and reapplied, so that each painting becomes an ongoing conversation between action and process. A visual flow where moment and infinity meet, where time feels both dissolved and present. Through this dialogue arises a sense of continuity and change, where each brushstroke is both anchored in the present and opens new possibilities in the viewer’s gaze.

Ojanen invites reflection on the potential of the overlooked—new expressions, new ways of experiencing and understanding. In "entropy", the works find themselves as a quiet reminder of the relentless rhythm of change and of how structure emerges and dissolves, how moment and process coexist. As viewers, we gain a subtle sense of the constant transformation of time and material—a visual echo of the forces that shape both the city and our experience of it.