Opening: Simon Dahlgren Strååt & David Permén, Gallery Weekend Stockholm

Name: Opening: Simon Dahlgren Strååt & David Permén, Gallery Weekend Stockholm
Start: 2024-11-08T17:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-11-08T19:00:00+01:00
Location: Karlavägen 9, SE-114 24 Stockholm, Sverige

Schedule

Fri Nov 08 2024 at 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Karlavägen 9, SE-114 24 Stockholm, Sverige | Stockholm, ST

It is with great pleasure that we present the joint exhibition "Habitat" by Simon Dahlgren Strååt and David Permén. The exhibition is based on conversations and thoughts exchanged between the artists over several years. Through various media - sculpture, painting, photography and video - two different but related artistic practices emerge, raising questions on how we perceive reality and the creation of identities. Their work contains multiple layers of interpretations, striking on an exploratory, sometimes almost surreal experience.
David Permén's works consists of different forms of expression, combining photographs, sound and moving images with sculptures and existing objects such a bouquet of artificial flowers and a snow shovel. All objects have their specific meaning but can also be linked together in a larger narrative and associative flow. Born in Lima but raised in Sweden, the artist has spent time exploring both his Peruvian origins and his upbringing in Småland and Stockholm. His work interweaves traces of parallel realities, life situations, issues of class, age and geographical location.
In Simon Dahlgren Strååt's imagery, there is also a search for places and memories, intertwining both historical and contemporary references. It is as if he is travelling through an inner landscape, moving between different environments, eras and spatiality. Sometimes the imagery seems lost in a dreamlike narrative and appears as a scenic backdrop, sometimes the surface is filled only with traces and patterns or abstract, organic forms. He describes the painterly process as a desire to explore the relationship between perception and interpretation, which he believes is in constant negotiation. The challenge is to discover new worlds and to capture the viewer as part of that spatiality.
There are poetic and compelling encounters in Dahlgren Strååt's scenic and dreamy imagery and David Permén's sculptural exploration of reality. Both seem to ask the question: what does authenticity mean?
Simon Dahlgren Strååt was born in 1984 in Stockholm, where he still lives and works. He studied at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. David Permén was born in 1979 in Lima, Peru, and grew up in Småland and Stockholm. He studied at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm.