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Elin Svanelind Emerging artist

Artist is based in: Sweden

Elin Svanelind is a Stockholm-based artist born and raised in Säffle, Värmland. Elin has a background in textiles but now mainly work with painting. Within the complexity of lived experience, lesbian relationships, complex emotions, the female body, queerness, and society: I try to say something about the present What happens to the female body when it exceeds the predetermined gender and what does the concealment of homosexual narratives do to us? What draws me to the body is both its limits and its possibilities. I see the body as an opportunity to push boundaries of what I myself am confronted with, what is considered acceptable, the fixed ideas about gender, norms and sexuality. What does it mean to express emotions such as aggression, pleasure, and sexual desire — feelings women are often discouraged from exploring or even acknowledging?


Painting

A Tangle of Tender Hunger by Elin Svanelind
A Tangle of Tender Hunger, 2026  
Painting, 200 x 205 cm
€10000
Deal with the glitch on your shoulder by Elin Svanelind
Deal with the glitch on your shoulder, 2026  
Painting, 200 x 205 cm
€10000
Your fist full of thunder, knocking for a beat to lay a rhyme | the oppressors are confused by Elin Svanelind
Your fist full of thunder, knocking for a beat to lay a rhyme | the oppressors are confused, 2026  
Painting, 200 x 205 cm
€10000
Summer by Elin Svanelind
Summer, 2026  
Painting, 200 x 205 cm
€10000
Cleanse me of my sins by Elin Svanelind
Cleanse me of my sins, 2026  
Painting, 200 x 205 cm
€10000
The Shape of love changing by Elin Svanelind
The Shape of love changing, 2026  
Painting, 200 x 205 cm
€10000

Portfolio Showcase (not for sale)

The body, a vessel of unimaginable reality by Elin Svanelind
The body, a vessel of unimaginable reality, 2025  
Painting, 200 x 200 cm

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