When Agnes Larsson tackles a material, she does so fully. Her method is to go deep into the material to find its core and how it resonates with what she wants to express. Often she breaks down her subject, explores its elements and builds it up again into something unexpected and new.

In the Remains series, we meet necklaces made of skin, hair and metal, where the properties we expect from the different materials have been changed and overturned. Aluminium, a material that can be perceived as cold, incorporeal and hard, becomes skin-like and soft in Larsson's jewellery, with a sense of ageing. The surface is no longer reflective and strong, but wrinkled and softly grey like stone. Even pure skin that was originally a container for life has changed and is now empty, stiff and reshaped into new structures.

In Larsson's work, questions and reflections about body and object, gravity and lightness, darkness and light are ever present.

Agnes Larsson was born in 1980 and works in Stockholm

Title: Remains
Material: aluminium, pure skin, horsehair, iron
Technique: mixed