Dick Hedlund - Arches

29/10 - 28/11 Preview 26/9 4-7 pm

There you are, on the threshold, feeling it; sensing, selecting and perceiving. From light data to perception, a refined fire pouring out of the eye, consolidating with fire from other luminous bodies, bouncing back through delicately stratified meshes of various qualities, dense and sparse, tainting pirouettes and rhythmic patterns, before vision might be procreated. Always, yet especially right here, behind arched air, in front of Dick Hedlund’s fabrics.

My friend is anti-fascist, queer and an outdoor enthusiast. His prospects are laid bare, as is the focus between thread and fabric, between line and gap, between flat or deeply projected topologies expressed in vivid landscapes of raw material, being transformed through persistent practice and an unreasonable amount of stitches. When lifting the presser foot, he evokes a buoyant vessel running wild in gusts, like a textile glossolalia pouring out of a machine with a weather vane on its engine. The traces left behind are bioluminescent nautical charts, mapping an inner archipelago; an arena where a thousand cranes dance in a sea of black polyester.

It might seem appropriate that Dick Hedlund has been bending bows for a space called Elastic. Yet these kinds of playful coincidences happen all the time around artists who conspire with theaether​ and should not be paid much more attention than a wink of one's eye.

Here, one might find far more overarching narratives, weaving together personal memories with attention to the mythological and the most fundamental processes of making images. Entanglements in the darknesses of caves; a tenderness towards the survival of the group. Well worth a trip.

-Rickard Eklund
Translated by; Hanna Wildov
 

We are proud to present Arches, who is Dick Hedlunds second solo show at the gallery, recently he participated in the group show Windows and Corners and at Monopol 2019 with three sculptural textile based works.

Welcome

Ola Gustafsson
ELASTIC Gallery

Dick Hedlund was born 1985 in Stockholm and graduated from Malmö Art Academy in 2016, he currently lives and works  in Stockholm. 

Selected group and solo shows to date include 2020  The Curse of Knowledge Upper Hand Gallery, Gothenburg 2019 Velvet Ropes, Galleri Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, MONOPOL 2019, Spritmuseum, Stockholm, Dick Hedlund and Joakim Heidvall, Konstnärshuset, Stockholm 2018 Velvet Ropes, Crum Heaven, Stockholm FREKVENSKONTROLL, SE!, Bångska Våningen, Stockholm, Settle Down And Drift Out, Elastic Gallery, Stockholm 2017 BIOTOP, Biologiska Museet, Stockholm 2014 POST-EXCAVATION, Elastic Gallery, Stockholm 2014 “Understrøm - Ung nordisk kunst" ARoS, Aarhus 2014 Forårsudstillingen  (spring exhibition), Charlottenborg, Copenhagen to name a few.

Hedlund is represented in private and public collections in Sweden, Norway, USA and Mexico as well as the City of Växjö Art Collection and the Skåne Municipal Art Collection.