Review: Madeleine Andersson: SHOCK VALUE, Nora Arrhenius Hagdahl, Kunstkritikk

Nora Arrhenius Hagdahl has written about Madeleine Andersson: SHOCK VALUE for Kunstkritikk. Below is an excerpt:

“Andersson’s objects appear to be made in a factory, hiding the craftsmanship behind neat seams, perfectly straight lines, and materials and shapes we are used to seeing spinning around in the capitalist cycle. Despite this, there is always something that is skewed, and the objects create with their flawless forms a kind of post-industrial surrealism, where even the absurd and mentally blown out have a place on the production facility’s assembly line.”

“The exhibition is at its strongest when I am completely enveloped in my own human consciousness – one that is not defined by a uniquely brilliant train of thought but by the potential to behave completely idiotically and still be able to laugh at it. When I stumble away, dazed, it is with the turbulent feeling of being stupid along with the «makes you think» meme spinning around in my head. Or as they say in the film (Degenerative Knowledge Production, 2024): «Trillions are spent on trying to argue the smarts, yet no one can define what it truly means to be stupid».”

Read the full review here (in Swedish only).