On April 22, you are invited to a cocktail within an installation where the traces of a wedding celebration remain. The music has faded, the tables remain, and some glasses are still half full. You may find yourself tempted to finish them.
During Stockholm Art Week, WAY Gallery together with Sotheby's presents Gustaf Lilliestierna's second presentation in a trilogy, The Accretion of Sensibility. The exhibition continues Lilliestierna's investigation, shifting the emphasis from the ontology of the image to the experience of it.
Bringing together eleven paintings, the presentation evokes moments from the periphery of an unseen narrative. Suspended between suggestion and absence, the works hint at events that have already occurred or are about to unfold. Here, the image operates less as a fixed representation than as a psychological threshold, a space where atmosphere, memory, and emotional resonance gradually accumulate in the viewer's encounter with the work.
Gustaf Lilliestierna (b. 1992) lives and works in Stockholm. He holds an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BFA from Konstfack in Stockholm, and has also studied at Parsons School of Design in New York and KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Lilliestierna has received grants from, among others, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, the Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation, and the Kiruna Scholarship.