Let’s Face it!
New public art work for Huskvarna Folkets Park commissioned by Public Art Agency / Statens Konstråd and Folkets hus & parker. 2022/2023.
Let’s face it! is an installation, a space and 3 sculptures made from recycled stone; granite, diabase and gneiss from an industrial stone yard. The work plays on the double. A double eye where the pupil has hole straight through, a double nose from the same red granite piece, and a double tongue in pink/grey marbled gneiss. The tongue, is the one part of the body that is rarely mimicked in visuals. It’s heard, it’s sensorial and sensual, it’s cannibalistic, it makes sense of ideas and thoughts, but it’s not seen. However here it stands alone not framed by a mouth, yet we can see the mouth in its absence. The works references sculptural history; the Egyptians and their god-man Horus with the protective eye or Louise Bourgeois large stone eyes. The noses nods to all those old stone sculptures and portraits of past humans with their lost noses.
The grey and red granite is about 1800 millions years of age.
https://statenskonstrad.se/konst/lets-face-it/
©LindaPersson2022
