Ase Frid
with Johan Frid
Åse Frid holds an MFA from Umeå Art Academy, Umeå University, Sweden (1995–2000). She lives and works in the Stockholm archipelago, one hour north of Stockholm. She works with text-based watercolor and ink, film installations, and poetry. Her work investigates the relationships between language, image, dream, humor, and contemplation.
The white of the paper is saved out inside the little marker-written letters, the warp of the painting, to which she relates in time and with watercolor around the text. This way of writing and painting started in Los Angeles in 1997 where she started making meticulously painted travel letters to the king of Sweden and to Iggy Pop. Recently she has been copying letters and writings from Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) and other artists and writers and made watercolors starting from the quotations. She has also made works that starts with ”false friends”, a linguistic term for words from different languages that look the same but have different meanings, such as ”barn”; meaning child in Swedish, but something else in English. She encircles these words in repetitive painting.
She has made a film projected on a 10 meter watercolor paper roll, with text and painting.
Ase Frid describes her work as connected to the holy work of medieval monks, illuminating holy scriptures. The concentration and the endless work creates a dreamlike state, and merges with the chance of color spread on the paper. Her work involves her own writings and poetry, qoutations from books or newspapers and surrealistic writings.
EDUCATION
Visual Art, Umeå University
Umeå, Sweden
JURY
Veit Goerner
Isabelle Graw
Peter Kogler
Peter Noever
Carl Pruscha
FINAL PROJECT
