Martin Wallén
(b. 1986, Nyköping, Sweden)
Can you drive this bed home?, 2025
Installation with leather sofa, mouldings, wall paint, armchair, transport wheels, wallpaper, textiles, toilet rolls, and ceramics
Martin Wallén works with performance and scenography. Using textiles, leather, wallpaper, ceramics and dismantled furniture, he builds environments in which the theatrical meets the personal. “I explore the home as a stage set, and its literal inside through parts and padding from found furniture. And the idea of ultimately merging with a piece of furniture.”
In the exhibition, Wallén shows the installation Can you drive this bed home?, a scenography of rooms and spaces, both exterior and interior, characterised by moving in, moving out, interrupted renovation eviction or perhaps fantasies of burglary at a furniture fair. The work gives a sense of accidental circumstance, like a backdrop to a performance that has not happened, which will be rolled out but then rolled back again.
The artist will give the performance Can you drive this bed home? during the opening of the exhibition.
Latest update: 2025-06-17