"Clara Ketter, Sam Druant, Rickard Eklund
Beyond the Veil
20 Mar 2025 - 12 Apr 2025

This exhibition features three artists— Clara Ketter, Sam Druant and Rickard Eklund—who explore themes of transformation, desire, and perception. Through their work, they investigate the thresholds between personal transformation and transitions into other realms. Their pieces engage in a dialogue about the boundaries of self, narrative, and perception.
(NL: Deze tentoonstelling toont werk van drie kunstenaars – Clara Ketter, Sam Druant en Rickard Eklund – die thema's als transformatie, verlangen en perceptie verkennen. In hun werk onderzoeken ze de grenzen tussen persoonlijke transformatie en overgangen naar andere werelden. Hun werken gaan een dialoog aan over de grenzen van het zelf, het verhaal en de perceptie.)

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Sam Druant, (b.1998, Belgium)

Sam Druant earned her BFA in textile at the LUCA School of Arts in Ghent and a MFA in Fine Arts from HDK-Valand. She currently lives and works in Gothenburg.
Tufted wool is her medium of choice, with which she creates playful-naughty textile tableaus that question and/or mock male dominance. She starts conversations about identity, desire and the complexity of our human existence, combining texture, colour and subject matter in striking artworks that embrace subjects with pertinent sexual innuendo and questions.
(NL: Sam Druant behaalde haar BFA in textiel aan de LUCA School of Arts in Gent en een MFA in beeldende kunst aan HDK-Valand. Ze woont en werkt momenteel in Göteborg.
Handtuften is haar favoriete medium, waarmee ze speelse, ondeugende textieltaferelen creëert die de mannelijke dominantie in vraag stellen en/of bespotten. Ze brengt gesprekken op gang over identiteit, verlangen en de complexiteit van ons menselijk bestaan, waarbij ze textuur, kleur en onderwerp combineert in opvallende kunstwerken die onderwerpen met relevante seksuele toespelingen en vragen omarmen.)
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Clara Ketter (b. 1998, Sweden)

Clara Ketter is a visual artist working interdisciplinary within sculpture and photography. She is currently completing her Masters in Fine art at Sandberg Instituut (NL) and works between Malmö and Amsterdam. She holds a bachelor degree in Fine art photography from HDK-Valand (SE).
Her work reflects on the fabrications and functions of storytelling, deriving from thoughts of the transient manner that narratives are constructed and altered through time, perspective and circumstance. She explores the liminal space where fictional narratives perhaps exist before they are manufactured, formulated and told.

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Rickard Eklund (b. 1987, Sweden)

Rickard Eklund is a visual artist working with sculptures, film, light, and printmaking, primarily exploring themes related to perception and perspective.
In addition to his own artwork, he also creates music videos, album artwork, and in other ways collaborate with music makers.
Currently, he commutes between his studio in Gothenburg and his home in Stockholm.

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