Jonna Iversen ^{Emerging artist}

Artist's country of origin: Sweden

Jonna Iversen (b. 1992) is a visual artist based in Umeå, working with photography in a sculptural and spatial way. Her process is intuitive, shaped by attention to the quiet connections that form between materials in the studio. Fragments of work often find their place beside each other by chance and become part of the same artwork. Photographs are printed on paper to keep the artistic process tactile and tangible.

Walking is central to Iversen’s practice. She collects photographed motifs and physical objects from her walks, small encounters with things from everyday life. She rarely photographs people, instead focusing on what they leave behind. By using the camera to think, the act of photographing becomes both reflection and collection.

Through this slow, embodied approach, Iversen creates site-specific installations. Her works invite viewers into a space where the overlooked becomes visible, and where the act of noticing itself becomes a form of meaning-making.

At Umeå Academy of Fine Arts she completed both her Bachelor- and Master’s degree and the master’s graduation show “Infinite proposals” is currently running at Bildmuseet in Umeå.

She also co-dependently runs Hemliga Skolan Produktion, a small-scale publishing project and cassette tape label (https://h-s-p.bandcamp.com/), as an extension of her interest in alternative, low-threshold modes of making and sharing.