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Jockum NordströmBoîte2017collage, watercolour and graphite on paper40 x 48 cm
Jockum NordströmSkördevaktarn (Harvest watcher)2017collage, watercolour and graphite on paper69 x 161 cm
Jockum NordströmDen öppna boken (The open book)2017collage, watercolour and graphite on paper54 x 90 cm
Jockum NordströmFörfattarna (The writers)2017collage, watercolour and graphite on paper106 x 76 cm
Jockum NordströmÅt helvete med allt (To hell with everything)2017collage, watercolour and graphite on paper64 x 92 cm
Jockum NordströmJ'écoute2017collage, watercolour and graphite on paper72 x 68 cm
Jockum NordströmLoppan (The Flea)2017collage, watercolour and graphite on paper70 x 69 cm
Jockum NordströmKvällen kommer (Evening comes)2017collage, watercolour and graphite on paper138 x 67 cm
Jockum NordströmFördelningen av arvet (The distribution of inheritance)2017collage, watercolour and graphite on paper100 x 195 cm
Jockum NordströmValentine's Day II2017collage, watercolour and graphite on paper61 x 81 cm
Jockum NordströmRyttare (Riders)2017collage, watercolour and graphite on paper72 x 104 cm
Jockum NordströmTamburen (the hallway)2017collage, watercolour and graphite on paper145 x 70 cm
Jockum NordströmRug2017collage, watercolour and graphite on paper121 x 66 cm
Jockum NordströmValentine's Day2017collage, watercolour and graphite on paper161 x 101 cm
Jockum NordströmSjukhusparken (Hospital park)2017collage, watercolour and graphite on paper72 x 104 cm
Jockum NordströmSkogen (the forest)2017collage, watercolour and graphite on paper69 x 76 cm
Jockum NordströmSista dansen (The last dance)2017collage, watercolour and graphite on paper80 x 104 cm
Jockum NordströmRymden tystar ljudet2017collage, watercolour and graphite on wood and paper75 x 54 cm
Photo: Peter CoxCourtesy Zeno X Gallery - Antwerp
Zeno X Gallery is proud to present the third solo exhibition of Jockum Nordström. The title, Rymden tystar ljudet, can be freely translated as ‘the spaces quieten the sound’.
Jockum Nordström (b. 1963, Stockholm) tries through his work to escape the daily pace of communication and technological innovations. He concentrates on a slow and meticulous process of drawing, painting, cutting, composing and gluing. Inspired by music, folk tales and outsider art, he creates other worlds in which the imagination and creativity have no limits. The collages seem to conjure up bygone times but also to evoke a new and particular world. Although everyday observations play a clear role in the emergence of the works, it is often difficult to find out which elements are based on reality and which are an expression of Nordström’s fantasies or desires. Through the flat accumulation of the collages, each work could be a fragment from a puppet show.
Specific to this exhibition are the abstract collages that Nordström is displaying for the first time. These works are strongly reminiscent of Nordström’s cardboard sculptures; they are often made of pieces of matchboxes and function as architectural models. The sculptures also refer to the dreary modernist blocks in the suburbs of Stockholm, where Nordström grew up. The collages could be floor plans of interiors, but they could just as well refer to envelopes and folded letters. Moreover he was inspired by a black and white book on African tapestries and textile patterns.
Jockum Nordström will hold a solo show in 2018 at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. He has had solo exhibitions at LaM, Musée d’Art Contemporain et d’Art Brut in Lille, at the Camden Arts Centre in London, the Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin and Moderna Museet in Stockholm. His works have also featured in group exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, MoMA in New York, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, SFMOMA in San Francisco, S.M.A.K. in Ghent, the Albertina in Vienna, and many more.