Karon Nilzén – Fantasy House, dark adaptation

In late autumn we are pleased to present Karon Nilzén’s exhibition Fantasy House, dark adaptation. Karon Nilzén works with sculptural objects, which are often based on found everyday objects. In their new forms, they are both recognizable and alien. For Marabouparken konsthall’s project room, he has put together an installation that fills the room with a variety of different objects and images that together create an intuitive whole.

”I am interested in the relationship between material and consciousness. Water crystallizes at a 60-degree angle, while the slats of a bed resemble the ribs of a chest. Perhaps it is a matter of mathematics, or simply the will to find faces in one’s surroundings.

I assume that everything exists on two levels – a physical and a mental one – and that these levels are equally real. That there is a perception connected to every physical thing, while at the same time every thought, feeling, and idea exists somewhere in physical form.

In the exhibition Fantasy House, dark adaptation, I present a series of new works in various techniques. The exhibition takes place indoors, in a dimly lit room. The interior is tilted out of its functionality toward a space between the physical and the sensual. I neither can nor want to try to formulate what it is about. What I can say is that I work intuitively with the materials and use intuition as a tool for creating spaces for free thought. Intuition is a kind of clairvoyance. I trust my clairvoyance and follow where it takes me. I found myself in a twilight saturated apartment where everything was moving in two directions. One movement toward fusion and one toward dissolution. Twilight is a state between the visible and the hidden. It gets dark earlier in the evenings now. I resist the impulse to turn on the lights, trying instead to let my eyes adjust to the darkness. This is called dark adaptation.” – Karon Nilzén