Visual artist born 1990 in Nässjö, Sweden. Lives and works inbetween Stockholm and Madrid. Holds a MFA from the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (2022), a BFA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (2017), and a BA in Art history from Uppsala Univeristy (2020).
I work in a research-based artistic practice utilizing a wide range of media, producing artworks that take form in sculpture, installation, text, and video. My art revolves around seeing and perception, exploring how we create meaning, values, and understanding through various conventions, ideologies, or worldviews. I am interested in how these manifest in the forms and images we surround ourselves with in architecture, design, art, and popular culture—perhaps particularly in Modernity's straight lines, functionalism, and ideals of cleanliness, or the Baroque's excessive, dizzying ornamentation.
Our relationship to materiality, the body, decay, and transience is a crucial aspect of my work. As a mind that cannot be eternal, needing control in an entropic world, I look to nature and biology, examining how we systematize them in science to create stable systems through which we can understand the world and our existence. The Western history of ideas has been characterized by dualism and separation, generating a view of the body as separate from the mind, and nature as something to use and rule over as we wish. These abstract systems have been disconnected from the material reality of our being, and we are now starting to feel the consequences of this way of thinking. The more I observe and learn about nature, the more I see that everything is permeable, dizzying, amazing, and terrifying. In short, my practice is a pursuit of clarity and an exercise in losing control.
TEXTS
Incidents around Lilla Stenshuvud 2023 (essay)
OTHER
On my are.na page I collect images and reference material for my art and research. On this
tumblr page I gather drawings, painting, video clips and other experiments I make, but that does't transcend into an actual work of art.
PRESS
‘Play It As It Lays’ Gives Up Control, Frieze Magazine 09.10.2024
Insektsinvastion på Konstakademien, Art Notes 30.08.2024
"Evelinas plastlådor tar oss bortom det äckliga: ”Det sker så mycket som vi inte ser”", Smålands-Tidningen 21.08.2022
"Masterclass", Kunstkritikk 26.05.2022
"För Konsthögskolans studenter är naturen medkonstnär", DN 25.05.2022
"Här är framtidens svenska konststjärnor", SvD 26.05.2022
"Konstuppslaget: Evelina Jonsson: Människan försöker alltid kontrollera naturen", Jönköpings posten 30.04.2019
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