Swedish designer Malou Palmqvist, who grew up in an artistic family, continues her art practice with sculpture works after her background in fashion design. The designer, who has been intertwined with art, design and literature since childhood, has tried to observe objects from every angle, to make sense of their existence by touching and feeling them. The designer, who lives in the Gothenburg archipelago in southwest Sweden, has transferred his discoveries about the fundamental laws of nature, the gravitational forces to which masses are exposed to each other, and how materials react when they come together.
Balance and Form
Aiming to blur the boundary between artificial and natural objects, Palmqvist balances geometric shapes with organic and amorphous forms in his works. Inspired by his closeness to nature in his calm and simple island life, he uses natural materials and old craft techniques in his sculptures. Defying the laws of nature, he finds the artificial balance he seeks by playing with proportions. Questioning the nature of degradation, the artist combines geometric forms with rough and organic shapes to create a new product in which natural and mutated objects come together.
In her abstract sculpture collection, which is on the thin border between beautiful and fragile, the artist aims to make a hard and solid material appear weightless and in balance, almost as if floating in air.
Palmqvist was inspired by the rock formations, colors of the island and the surrounding nature in his sculptures. The artist, whose color is one of the most important elements in his work, uses unconventional color combinations. He blends different materials in balance in his sculptures, the base of which is usually made of natural stone. He used several layers of engobes and glazes to reinforce the shape of his sculptures, which he transformed into ergonomically curved objects. The artist, who also aims to reflect the fragility of the human body in her works, questions how something repulsive can be seen as beautiful by discovering that excess weight in the human body is disliked and rejected.
