Per Nenzelius

His work takes its form from personal experiences and a global flow of information; as a bow and arrow of the type that Chinese students used to besiege their university in Hong Kong in 2019, but made from cross-country skis from the Return Store at Gimonäs, or self-made camping equipment made of materials from Ikea, at a cost that is 20 times lower than a comparable product from Naturkompaniet.

The artist examines how we ourselves can satisfy our material desires and asks questions about need, consumption, survival and luxury. The Installation Building a Desert consists of two components and depicts the meeting between the idea of an alien desert and the locally well-known kick sled, where something as apparently irreconcilable as the passage of time and reflection collide.

Exhibited works, degree exhibition

Building a Desert, Installation: Sand, kick sled 

Interview

Per Nenzelius, born 1984, Kramfors (Swedish).