This is British artist Jonathan Baldock’s first solo exhibition in Sweden, he is presented in parallel with the Swedish artist Adèle Essle Zeiss in an Autumn exhibition programme focused on transformation and how we relate to the human body and our personal space. Two exhibitions characterised by sensuousness, presence and a cautious hopefulness.
The installation Warm Inside (2021) has been specially created for Accelerator’s subterranean space. In lighting that enhances the absence of daylight, Baldock presents a floating group of sculptures in a peaceful parallel world. The twelve newly created sculptures’ dimensions and designs are based on ideas of human cocoons and potential containers for waiting and metamorphosis.
Baldock’s art is often autobiographically grounded. Produced during the past two turbulent years when the artist’s everyday life, like that of many others, changed radically, the works of Warm Inside originate from ideas about the relationship to home and personal space as something both protecting and suffocating.
