Trinidad Carrillo (b. 1975) is a photographer, born in Peru and active in Gothenburg. She shows a series of new photographs that connect to her many years of exploration of everyday life, memory, dreams and healing processes.
For this exhibition, Trinidad Carrillo has created a new series of color photographs, using lenticular prints, a technique that gives the images a three-dimensional expression and changes the motifs depending on the viewer’s movement in space. The result is evocative scenes that alternate between the visible and the imagined, the real and the dreamlike.
Olle Norås (b. 1982, Dalarna) is educated at HDK in Gothenburg and works with an abstract watercolor painting that revolves around nature’s organic processes and cycles. In the exhibition he presents about ten metaphorical nature images with a meditative and existential tone.
Olle Norå’s exhibition also includes many new works. In his latest paintings, the abstract imagery has been inspired by flower-like shapes that bring to mind time, change and man’s relationship with nature.
The exhibition runs from December 6, 2025 – March 29, 2026. The opening ceremony with opening speech will take place on Saturday, December 6 at 2:00 PM.
The scholarship motivations are as follows:
Trinidad Carrillo
Since the 1990s, artist Trinidad Carrillo has developed a distinctive visual language where the dreamlike and the everyday meet in poetic and multi-layered worlds. Through photography and installations, she creates scenes that feel both familiar and enigmatic, where the logic and intuitive traces of dreams open up unexpected associations.
People, animals, plants and mythological figures appear in quiet encounters, imbued with moods that move between tenderness, wonder and melancholy. With a unique ability to work with color, light and subtle details, she leads the viewer into suggestive stories that linger long afterwards.
For an artistry that, with a gentle hand and distinctive visual poetry, allows us to sense aspects beyond the visible, Trinidad Carrillo is awarded a scholarship for 2025 from the Sten A Olsson Foundation for Research and Culture.
Olle Norås
The artist Olle Norås works with an exploratory approach to organic materials and forms. Through painting, sculpture and experiments with surfaces and textures, he creates works that raise questions about man’s relationship to nature and the slow processes that shape our world.
Themes such as time, memory and change recur in his map-like images. In the details, the viewer’s gaze shifts between scale and significance: from lichens that slowly emerge, to fragments of geological patterns or distant glittering galaxy clusters. In this way, a oscillation arises between the microscopic and the cosmic, between presence and distance.
For an artistry that, with methodical work and visionary precision, is able to transform the overlooked into visually charged experiences, Olle Norås is awarded the 2025 scholarship from the Sten A Olsson Foundation for Research and Culture.
