softer than shiver
In the exhibition softer than shiver, Jasmine Christensson explores the fluid boundaries between form and language, drawing inspiration from Clarice Lispector’s The Besieged City. Through sculpture, Christensson evokes the novel’s shifting sense of place and self, of the familiar and the unknowable. A metal enclosure—part pasture, part barrier—stands at the heart of the exhibition, suggesting a space that is at once open and confined. This ambiguous structure reflects the tension between movement and stasis, presence and absence, echoing the elusive nature of the thing in Lispector’s text. Sentences fold in on themselves, resisting direct meaning, criss-crossing our attention. This work follows Christensson's examination of what she calls guiding signs: traffic cones, road signs, security fences and enclosures – objects commonly found in public spaces throughout the cityscape. She's interested in how these signs function as messengers or warnings, directing our attention towards something else. This is made into a template for sculpture. By stripping these objects of their signaling warning color, she gives them a new language where elements of interruption instead calls for a closer look. Alongside this structure are plaster reliefs cast from old car mats and mounted with diaristic photography. The reliefs become a collection point for remnants of life, functioning as a personal visual trail alongside her more publicly coded sculptures and structures.
The exhibition was accompanied by a text written by the artist. Read it here.
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Installation views and details from the show softer than shiver at Galleri Ping-Pong in Malmö, Sweden, 2025.
List of works:
softer than shiver - welded steel, a belt, bolts and mutters, 2025.
still life 1 - plaster mounted with photography, 2023.
still life 2 - plaster mounted with photographs, 2023.
still life 3 - plaster mounted with photography, textile, 2025.
fålla - welded steel, acrylic, bolts and mutters, 2025.