Egna utrymmen-Peculiar spaces

Katarina Warrenstein, Dag Joelsson

Dalarnas museum, Falun, 27.01-11.03 2007

Vetlanda Museum, Vetlanda, Sweden, 12.11- 4.12 2005

Galleri Titanik, Åbo, Finland,15.9-9.10 2005

Dag Joelsson is a painter and Katarina Warrenstein a sculptor, but they both work on the border of other genres; installations or sounding objects, that often aren´t associated with art. An important common denominator of their art is memories, and retrospection. Dag combines painting and different sorts of objects: chairs, lamps, and other everyday items. The pictures bring up childhood memories from the early sixties. The fragmentary execution strengthens the sensation of fading memories. His way of describing an idyll with a troubled undercurrent has something in common with the artist Dick Bengtsson . Katarina´s sculptures and objects shapes memories in a different way. Memories of people, without an obvious connection to a certain time and atmosphere, rather as things left behind from an indeterminable past. The artist and critic Jan Håfström wrote of an earlier exhibition, about Katarina Warrenstein´s "inexorable prompting to survey her own territory"where "the evil and the ghastly exists. As well as the loving and childish". Dag and Katarina writes about the exhibition "Peculiar spaces": "Objects, sculptures and paintings here form an environment, and simultaneously stand for themselves, retrospective and in the present. In the way a child tries to build the world with what´s available. You don´t really know what the inhabitants do, or why. While they´re here, waiting, a lot happens, often small things. And their dreams give off their colour on everything."

Mikael Falk