Hanna Hedman's art challenges our imagination and draws us into a world filled with partly visible and partly hidden stories. She often builds up her objects by making lots of parts that she layers on top of each other. The process is often monotonous as she repeats shapes over and over again, and can be both manic and meditative. The laborious process seems to charge the objects with a particular power.

The design language often returns to the almost overgrown, a myriad of parts where hidden traces, messages and stories take their place. Hedman's work, which varies in scale from jewellery to large spatial objects, explores the relationship between an inner and outer world and also the boundaries between work and reality. They have a strong character of growth, taking over forms, places, thoughts and spaces. Both visually and thematically, Hedman's works find us in a balancing act between the bright, soothingly beautiful and a sense of something perishable and obscure.

Hanna Hedman was born in 1980 and works in Stockholm.

Title: Becoming natureand In the company of death (passes through hands)
Material: steel, linseed oil and pigments, cotton, t-shirt and earl grey tea.