Artist: Lisa Jonasson

Galleri Magnus Karlsson presents an exhibition with Lisa Jonasson in the inner room of the gallery. Second Breath features a series of screen prints and sculptures cast in aluminium.

In the autumn of 2025, I was restless because of the state of the world. My angry energy wasn’t suited to studio work but worked well for the metal foundry and the printmaking workshop. In recent years, I have been cutting out silhouettes, tiny little pieces that have been assembled into collages. Now I used a larger pair of scissors to cut out coarser silhouette figures in black, which I pasted together into positive originals that were then photographically transferred onto the screen frames. In the workshop, one image has led to another. To my surprise, the images turned out archaic, simple and open. Although I have spent many years working with my own inner visual world, the outside world is strongly present, now and always. In images, as in other languages, it is only what is shared that is viable.
–Lisa Jonasson

Lisa Jonasson (b. 1978) lives and works in Stockholm. She is educated at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (1999–2004) and has exhibited regularly at galleries and institutions in Sweden since the early 2000s. Her detailed paper-cut collages have become something of a trademark. Bustling images created intuitively from painted and cut-out small pieces of paper, assembled with great precision. The technique has since evolved to include three-dimensional wooden elements and more distinct compositions. In certain exhibitions, she has also worked in a more spatial manner with sculptures and moving shadow play installations. Within their limitations, her cut-out figures capture the body’s emotions and gestures. The idea of an outer and inner world has permeated her artistic practice – the body as the intersection between the worlds and as a site of conflict between them. Jonasson has also worked on a number of public art commissions and is represented in private collections in Sweden and internationally, as well as at the Moderna Museet, Malmö Art Museum and Uppsala Art Museum, Sweden, among others.