The artist and ELLE blogger Estelle Graf is present with the exhibition Finely Dressed and Desperate at WAY gallery in Stockholm. She presents a brand new collection of oil work the place costumed animals take up house within the room.
In an interview with the ELLE profile Helle Schunnesson says Estelle Graf in regards to the thought behind the exhibition.
– It’s in regards to the battle between wanting to keep up some sort of facade and a longing to tear it down, after which discover a context the place you might be your self, she says.
Helle Schunesson meets the artist Estelle Graf
One of Estelle Graf’s work depicts a pig procuring at NK – a piece that Helle Schunesson says she acknowledges loads of herself in.
– You each despise that pig and acknowledge your self, I believe. A bit like a sophisticated poo sausage. I fairly often really feel like one, and a sheep’s cranium, says Estelle Graf.
“Longing for anti-inspiration”
Estelle Graf tells us that she is impressed by structure, kids’s books and music, amongst different issues – however that she is surrounded by a lot inspiration that it could possibly nearly develop into a bit overwhelming.
– I get some sort of longing for some anti-inspiration. I look away from issues which have beforehand impressed me, to search out one thing that feels attention-grabbing or that may “restart” the mind slightly. Like, for instance, some previous documentary from the 90s, says Estelle.
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