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About Tove

Skin protects you. Losing it is painful, we are vulnerable. But we are open, to others, and to a new start. What is distinctive in Tove Kjellmark's work is a faschination for behavior, dynamics and movement. This is an artist who creates work in a very spontaneous way using advanced technology, robotics and digital media as a tool for artistic expression. Kjellmark draws on psychoanalysis and neuroscience to explore people's relationship to that which is alien, or non-human, with focus on humans in relation to machines. Sculpture, photography and drawings in parallel all revolve around the question of how to represent vulnerable, mute, bodily states of being. An interactive toy is often the starting point in these artworks which Kjellmark cuts open, tears off the soft covering, makes strange, and controls with computer code. Sometimes she inverts the scale so that the interactive sculptures becomes menacing and monstrous giants, in other cases, she goes under the skin to uncover the psychological notions that problematizes the human. Tove articulates in a deeply perverse way essential questions about the contemporary human condition.