Happy to announce that the fabulous artist Joani Tremblay (Montreal, Canada) will open her solo show in Stockholm next week! ARTIST: JOANI TREMBLAY CURATOR: DAPHNE CAROLUS PRESENTED BY: PONY SUGAR AT VISUAL RELIEF 1 - 9 DECEMBER DAILY OPENING HOURS: 12h to 19h STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN Welcome to the vernissage 17-20 Kocksgatan 25, Stockholm XOXO PONY SUGAR

WANDERING/VANDRANDE After a while, a single memory transforms from a cluster of data to a sort of transparent marshmallow, from a fogless landscape to a charged theatrical backdrop. Or “more distant, less real,” as Montreal-based artist Joani Tremblay puts it. Memories get drunk, dissolve and mutate, forming relationships to other drunk, dissolved memories, assembling in the bank of miscellany from which synesthetic musings of the human mind become possible. Like, looking at something in Costa Rica that reflexively, involuntarily makes you think how you felt that day in Paris, sitting at a particular place, thinking about that thing. No explicit relationship, but some involuntary trace made. The slaphappy, swaggering Californian artist Robert Irwin (best known for his light and landscape works), in speaking of his time in the desert said, “It suddenly just stands up and hums, it becomes beautiful, incredibly, the presence is so strong.” Tremblay brings hums from different landscapes into quiet communion on canvas. She does all her drafting digitally, testing “a million possibilities until I find this feeling of a place I was searching for,” before sketching onto the material. Like utopias, the places in her paintings don’t exist. Utopia is necessarily, by definition, “no place”. But these paintings can be understood as sensory assemblages of places the artist has been or feels intuitively familiar with. One sees so many images of the world over the course of a life. This enables people to (again, largely involuntarily), fabricate understandings that may or may not have footing in reality. Somehow, by these means, the immaterial is materialized. Tremblay’s paintings speak to such perceptions of intimacy we may experience with images from across the globe: the way they find their ways to each other, the way we find our ways to them. Although the present social, political, economic and environmental conditions are so volatile that most images we see are fraught, Tremblay’s dense painterly visions, into the surreally familiar, are a testament to the wandering eye. To the slowly stirring kind of solace that become possible by letting the mind wander into different sites for life, rooms that materialize when required. When Tremblay references traditional landscape painting—from Constable’s clouds to O’Keeffe’s New Mexico days—it’s to put canonical notions of beauty in the ring. To set the classical (which has been discarded from contemporary art discourse for its romantic excess, wide appeal and conceptual paucity) alongside camouflage or cacti, is to posit a kind of before-and-after sequence—a format so beloved by the internet. A way to allude to complexity, or lost memory, quickly. Tremblay urges the viewer to mull over what is contained in the mass of time that lies between one aspect of the painting and another. Text by Jaclyn Bruneau ARTIST: JOANI TREMBLAY CURATOR: DAPHNE CAROLUS & SNÖVIT HEDTSTIERNA 1 DECEMBER - 9 DECEMBER STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN OPEN: TUESDAY TO FRIDAY 12h TO 18h KOCKSGATAN 25, STOCKHOLM-SOFO PRESENTED BY PONY SUGAR IN COLLABORATION WITH VISUAL RELIEF AND WITH SUPPORT FROM CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.

Opening of Johanna Hannos "You only live twice" and aw at studio garage Stockholm.

Opening of Johanna Hannos "You only live twice" and aw at studio garage Stockholm.

Opening of Johanna Hannos "You only live twice" and aw at studio garage Stockholm.

Opening of Johanna Hannos "You only live twice" and aw at studio garage Stockholm.

The performance takes place in Latrac, presented by Pane Per Poveri. http://www.paneperpoveri.org Description: Snövit Hedstierna (SE/CA) will together with other invited artists create a durational group performance that questions the new territories of participatory disciplines in terms of passive observers and the role of the producers in a new world order. Snövit creates sensually driven installations, videos, sound, photography and performance that examines the deepest of human emotions, compassion, healing, intimacy, sexuality, rituals and relations beyond the given structures. Her work can be seen as an act of resistance against prejudice towards “otherness" and stereotypical ways in how the world has been presented or even programmed into our consciousness through visual media. Snövit creates large scale projects, long durational performances and participatory installations where she addresses, appropriates and subverts the notions of existential questions, human value, bodily politics, gender and identity based rights. By inserting them into a new order, interlacing, reframing and blowing up situations in contrast to, or in conflict with social restrictions -she aims to shed light over the hidden, forgotten, untold and folded. To give ground for new versions of truths and ways of experience life as a human being. http://snowwhite.se Participating artists: Snövit Hedstierna, Gylfi Freeland Sigurðsson, Ismini Makaratz, Kalliopi Koutsi, Christoffer Danielsson Curator: Daphne Carolus

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