Nina Canell: Mid-Sentence

The Moderna Museet of Stockholm hosts Nina Canell’s first solo exhibition in Sweden, entitled Mid-Sentence.

Canell’s works generally consist of materials that are normally used for specific purposes – such as nails, electricity, air, water, chewing gum and sound. In this exhibition, they trigger associations and encourage us to think of a place where something can be shared, altered or set off in an unexpected direction.

Unlike traditional sculpture, Nina Canell’s (born Växjö, Sweden, 1979) works are rarely static but consist of processes, situations or events. Accentuations of energy and movement recur frequently in her art.

Canell has chosen to call the exhibition at Moderna Museet ‘Mid-Sentence’, and says that “this can be interpreted as a point, not necessarily halfway, but as a freestanding coordinate”. It can be understood as something without a known origin, where the meaning or ending is as yet indefinite. Or, to put it differently, as a situation where anything is still possible.