This year's grant recipients from Malmö Art Academy are Anna Pezzoli, Ylva Kublik Borg and Vigga Heisselberg Wæhrens.
Anna Pezzoli
Anna Pezzoli’s practice turns towards neglected or overlooked details of daily life—like breathing, stuttering, or dying— with a sense of awe and play. Yet this is not the naïve gaze of a child, but a deliberate mode of attention grounded in an awareness of how even ordinary gestures are entangled in broader political, social, and affective networks. By signaling towards these subtle interconnections, Pezzoli reveals how the seemingly minor or intimate is never separate from collective structures of power and care. Which is to say, her work insists that noticing these links helps us better understand our interdependent roles and responsibilities towards each other.
Ylva Kublik Borg
For Ylva Kublik Borg, words and memories are combined into sculptural form. Some objects are charged. They are everyday – a lining for a jacket, a moon boot, a shelf at eye level for a little girl. They find their place in a visionary artistic thinking attentive to material and space.
Kublik Borg’s sensitively modeled objects in clay materialize a disappearing feeling. In some way, they are tied to a language, dysfunctional but still possible to use.
Vigga Heisselberg Wæhrens
In Vigga Heisselberg Wæhrens practice notions of place and humankind’s relationship to land, nature and environment are investigated. Deeply rooted in filmic traditions and mastering both analogue and digital formats, she attempts to unpack larger questions on climate changes, land use and remembrance of sites. Heisselberg Wæhrens has the ability to adress complex issues with a fine balance between seriousness and humour that allows the works to stay with the viewer long after the visit to the exhibition space.