Mari Slaattelid (b.1960) already had aroused a great deal of attention before 2000, the year in which she won the Carnegie Art Award, the Nordic art world’s most prestigious prize. Her most recent works are paintings on acrylic sheets and on aluminium, also adapted photographs…
The experience of working with painting underlies much of what I do, including my use of photography in recent years. I wish to be open to many kinds of pictorial language, rather than to commit myself to a single signature style, which is one of many idealised expectations that people have of art…