Karl Holmqvist : READ DEAR

Karl Holmqvist (b. Västerås, 1964) presents a new text-based series in an intimate installation of digitally printed canvases, graffiti and concrete poetry. Together, the works unpack the many operations of language, how it can occupy space and provoke ‘invisible images’ within memory and imagination.

Holmqvist is known for using a wide range of formats – poetry readings, installation and sculpture – to bring out the primal qualities of language. He is one of a current generation of artists working with language and text as a sculptural or performative material. Holmqvist says his work is meant to spark the creative process in the viewer, seeing his art and poetry as a translation of the complexities of contemporary life. He blends poetry with pop music and his texts, composed of anecdotes as famous as they are diverse, explore the theme of communication and language