Central to Jenny Olsson’s work and her work is an investigation of natural phenomena and poetry. It is an examination of the concepts of time; the past, the present and the future and the search for the inaccessible. She often starts from a place and explores it based on her own methods and analyses.
“This exhibition is about the forest. About the trees, the water and my relationship to the landscape. In her books, Sara Lidman describes landscapes that I recognize from the interior of Västerbotten. She calls them outlying areas, I call them outlying areas. Sara writes about landscapes that are characterized by the people who live in them and how people are forced to listen to their surroundings. For me, the landscapes are a memory diary of places I’ve traveled through or past.
To work with graphics is to work with processes that involve contrasts, resolution and union, high pressure and chemical processes. I let this influence and be meaningful in the way I think about my work. My images and installations often reflect the materials I work with; metal, paper, acid and light. ”
Jenny’s method is usually based on graphic techniques. It is central to the creation of the works and gets its unique expression only through the technology used to create it. In this process, the method must have a function and not be a copy of itself. The graphics’ methods, the technique and the inertia of the materials and the unique expression, correspond to what she wants to convey and the processes become part of a rhythm of thought.
Jenny Olsson (b.1973) has studied art and graphics in Denmark, Sweden and the USA. She is represented at, among others, the Modern Museum, the National Museum, the British Museum, Örebro County Council and Danderyd Hospital. In addition to her own artistry, she works as a graphic arts teacher at the Royal Academy of Arts and also runs the Tellus graphics studio in Stockholm. She has also been curator of the collections at Grafikens Hus.
