In her work, the immaterial nature of digital files is transformed into something very tangible. While the results may evoke painterly qualities, she deliberately preserves and highlights the presence of pixels and digital artifacts, making them an integral part of the final composition.
We are thrilled to open the fall season with Eva-Teréz Gölin’s exhibition Transparency and Its Shadows, her third solo exhibition with the gallery.
For the past decade, Gölin has explored online digital imagery as a representation of our contemporary era, continually challenging the boundaries of the photographic medium. Her new body of work emerges from a sustained investigation into how photographic images might appear if defined solely by the colours before the camera—rather than by the light reflected from the motif, as has been the case since the medium’s invention.
As the exhibition’s title Transparency and Its Shadows suggests, the works embody a duality: everyday objects and phenomena take on a sense of unease, while their abstracted nature invites the viewer into iterative acts of reinterpretation—ultimately reflecting both their own subjectivity and the world around them.
The exhibition also presents an installation, Double Sided Shelter — a blast mat weighing over 200 kg. The title alludes both to the advantage of having two sides from which to seek protection, and to the troubling necessity of deciding which side, at any given moment, can truly be considered safe.
Eva-Teréz Gölin (b. 1972) lives and works in Gothenburg. She is one of eight Swedish artists to receive this year’s IASPIS grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. In recent years, her work has been exhibited in Sweden and Finland, and is represented in several public and private collections, including Göteborg Konst, Region Stockholm, and Västra Götalandsregionen. Gölin studied at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and at Novia University of Applied Sciences in Jakobstad, and she holds a master’s degree in photography from the Valand Academy at the University of Gothenburg.