March 6-29, 2025

Rowan Eriksson’s works present a visual dialogue about the continuous scrutiny of gender performance through layered sketches, advertisements, and bodily remnants that resist easy interpretation. In this exhibition, materials such as hair, glass, oil, pastel, and acrylic serve not only as aesthetic elements but as active agents in the process of meaning-making.

This exhibition speaks directly to current events, where the rights of queer and women’s bodies are increasingly under attack. Embracing Surrealist techniques of automatism and collage, the artist constructs unconscious compositions that weave together family photographs, social media imagery, and cultural iconography. Shifting forms of the body emerge throughout the work, both familiar and strange, urging viewers to reflect on their own perceptions of self.

Amid the constant political and social scrutiny of marginalized bodies, Eriksson’s paintings become a space for questioning and redefining how bodies are perceived, represented, and understood in a politically charged environment.