Mia Mirstam, "Klockan 14.00, version 2"
Signed Mia Mirstam and dated 2021. Mud, wood, and paper height 11 cm, length 24 cm, width 11 cm,
Two small microphones are missing from two tables, other than that, good condition.
Tom Böttiger Collection, Stockholm.
Compare another version of "Klockan 14.00" exhibited at Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm, Vårsalongen, 2021, cat. no. 227.
The spring of 2020 is a special time. The pandemic has recently become a reality. I am working during this period with worlds of models and sculptures, and the work that is usually quite solitary becomes very lonely. We are supposed to stay at home as much as possible. Therefore, the kitchen in our apartment is gradually turning into my studio. Every day, as I sit and work from home, I follow the daily press conference at 2:00 PM.
I begin to create this piece that will be named "Klockan 14.00" (2:00 PM) It becomes a kind of processing of what is happening, and reality becomes less frightening.
I work with scenography for theater and museums, exhibition development and production, scenic painting, and prop making, among other things. In parallel with this, I devote myself to my own image creation. I like to work with watercolours, but over the past year, I have mostly worked with sculpture.
(Mia Mirstam, Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm, Vårsalongen, 2021.)