Ellen Rosdala
and the sun still sets every night II, 2020
How political and personal events affect individuals and places occupies me. I extract from forms, moods and materials that point to emotional and physical work. I see my sculptures as changeable components, situated in a complex memory chain.
I work with overlapping and parallel narratives that are rooted in personally experienced places and memories. My starting point has been mainly based on places from my childhood and places where I have stayed during the past few years such as Narva, a city in north-eastern Estonia bordering Russia and the burnt forests outside Ljusdal.
In the sculptures “and the sun still sets every night II” and “piercing grounds” I primarily use the sites to explore different kinds of destructiveness, through its positive and negative aspects.
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250 x 250 x 250cm
steel
