Thins consist of nails embedded in the gallery wall, but instead of having been hammered in, the nail’s sharp point faced out, toward the viewer. A few more nails loosely hung from its tip, creating a fragile chain. They were held together by a magnetic force—invisible, but powerful—that permeated their little “bodies” with a flow of energy.
The viewer can imagine the sound of a falling nail—in the possibility that the magnetic field that holds Thins together may lose out to gravitational pull.
Through delicate compositions of familiar and often mundane objects and materials, the works of the Swedish-born, Berlin-based artist allow the audience to perceive normally imperceptible dimensions of reality—not only flows of energy but gravity, sound waves, or air itself.