During Stockholm Art Week, WAY gallery presents Gustaf Lilliestierna's exhibition The Accretion of Sensibility in collaboration with Sotheby's at Sturegatan 24. The presentation situates Lilliestierna's paintings within a new context during Art Week – a setting where different traditions of art, viewing, and collecting can intersect.

In spring 2025, the first part of Lilliestierna's trilogy was presented at WAY gallery on Upplandsgatan 57 in the exhibition The Erosion of Reason. There, the paintings revolved around the logic of the image and its resistance to unambiguous interpretation. The Accretion of Sensibility continues this investigation, shifting the emphasis from the ontology of the image to the experience of it.

The exhibition presents eleven paintings that evoke 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 slowly 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.