Berit Lindfeldt
Berit Lindfeldt carefully shapes simple everyday objects into new forms and charges them with meanings about life’s existential questions. With seemingly simple approaches and a long artistic practice behind her, she weaves thoughts, fragments of memory and an experience into her works. Her abstract designs – sometimes subtle, are recognizable to the viewer, where both hopefulness and seriousness coexist.
The starting point is often the home, the room and its objects, such as furniture and its interior, which are re-created and given new meanings. The choice of material and technique should correspond to the feeling she wants to convey, so that the works can be charged with a deeper meaning. With varying materials such as bronze, cement, plaster, wood, iron, rubber, sheet metal, clay, masonite and foam rubber, sculpture, objects and assemblages emerge. She also often uses discarded things and worn-out materials with a patina that already carry a history, where the title of the work also reinforces its ambiguity. The found objects and materials also open up to the unexpected and pleasurable… Berit believes that “to stay there on uncertain ground, in the unpredictable, is that the whole point?”
Berit Lindfeldt has had exhibitions both abroad and in Sweden. Among the latter are “Tillvaron kant” at Liljevalchs 2014, “Insides and Edges” at the Academy of Fine Arts 2020. Berit Lindfeldt received the Friends of the Modern Museum Sculpture Prize in 2021.
