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Want yer moan\/move the stone, from “Book of English Proverbs”, an artist book 2025-2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u00c5se Frid works at the intersection of image and text. Her practice is grounded in the various techniques of drawing and watercolor, often involving a meticulous process combined with an intuitive approach to colors and forms. She explores the relationship between language, image, dream, and humor, in autofiction as well as in other narratives. Often the viewer enters directly into the action without detours, yet at the same time the patient and rule-based working method allows a certain madness to emerge in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a technique of her own, the text is first written with ink markers, leaving the white of the paper visible inside the hollow letters\u2014the warp of the painting\u2014to which \u00c5se Frid relates both painterly and temporally. In this way, an image is slowly woven forth with the help of the brush around the text. She has worked with this way of painting and writing since 1997, when, while living in Los Angeles, she created illustrated travel letters to the King and to Iggy Pop\u2014works based on dreams, difficult to interpret, in which they appeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her works include watercolors, paintings, documentation of performances, film and drawing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Influences include artists such as Tracey Emin, Raymond Pettibon, and Mike Kelley. One of her professors at the Ume\u00e5 Academy of Fine Arts was Stig Sj\u00f6lund; it was a time when relational aesthetics encountered personal, dreamlike expressions and the forms of drawing, and when connections were forged with, among others, the American West Coast. This gave her a desire to work without diversions, with a directness in the articulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c5se Frid was educated at the Ume\u00e5 Academy of Fine Arts. She has previously exhibited, among other places, at Vallentuna Kulturhus, MAK Center for Art and Architecture Los Angeles, Galleri Rostrum in Malm\u00f6, Dalarnas Museum, and Galleri 54 in Gothenburg.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Kingletter V (purple rain), 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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