Moa Håkansson:
Att förklara en kropp III

Welcome to the Opening on Thursday, November 20, from 19:00 - 21:00.

Moa Håkansson works with sculpture and sculptural installation, using clay as her primary material. Through her sculptures, she creates a universe of abstract, partially anthropomorphic forms that appear as beings – sensing, communicating, and acting. Placed in constellations and groupings, they form various narratives and emotional connections.

As the boundaries between what is human, object, and material shift, it can also seem as though the objects themselves are sensing. The sculptural bodies in the room appear as organic movements frozen in a moment. Their surfaces vary from smooth to textured, glazed or raw-fired, and several have holes or openings that suggest an eye or a mouth.

Håkansson’s sculptures are gathered into small tableaux – or constellations – where the figures seem to address one another; one leans affectionately against another, while another stretches toward us. The colours, tactile surfaces, and the material’s form invite an immediate bodily resonance – as though our bodies respond to them before our intellect does.

Moa Håkansson’s artistic practice is rooted in psychology, biology, and existential questions. She is interested in exploring emotions, inner conflicts, and human striving, with particular focus on life’s fundamental contradictions: the desire for both freedom and security, individuality and community, creation and destruction. A central question in her work is: What is a human being?