Paula Tove Alderin Swedish, b. 1971
Inferno VI, 2026
Printing ink, incised marks, carbon on steel, triptych
595 x 758 x 1,5 mm (each panel 595 x 250 x 1,5 mm). Framed 920 x 920 x 42 mm. Please note that the work can be adapted for presentation either framed or unframed.
Inferno, 2025 Printing ink, incised marks, carbon on stainless steel plate. The artist navigates the spaces between language, matter, and the body, using materials such as ash, coal, flesh,...
Inferno, 2025
Printing ink, incised marks, carbon on stainless steel plate.The artist navigates the spaces between language, matter, and the body, using materials such as ash, coal, flesh, and dust to weave the stories and memories embedded in matter into her practice.
In the series Inferno, the printing ink (trycksvärta) comes from newspaper articles collected by the artist over the years. Using acetone, words and images are etched permanently into the metal surface.
Contemporary issues and debates are embedded in her works in various ways, as timeless existential themes resonate with the urgencies of the present. Materiality itself becomes a carrier of meaning through corporeal or flesh-like substances and through traces of significant events preserved in newspaper articles, transformed into printing ink and solvent.