Karl Holmqvist, TUFF LOVE

TUFF LOVE is an exhibition with work by Karl Holmqvist at the Power Station Dallas, April 13 – June 15, 2016. It consists of two large-scale sculptures in a site-specific installation, a short film, a live performance and an artist’s book, designed by Studio Manuel Raeder specially for the exhibition.

“Through readings, sculpture, painting, installation and performance, Holmqvist’s work is given along with and in language, not formed separately from it. Here, words sourced from pop culture and their subsequent arrangement and intonation are prioritized over their literal meaning or origin. Spoken words take on the volume of sculpture. A word is a sculpture a sculpture a word. Holmqvist’s interest in the structural composition of words draws from the capacity for the re-signification of language through multiple forms of deployment.”

Published by The Power Station on the occasion of the exhibition Karl Holmqvist, Tuff Love, English, 300 × 300 mm, 192 pages, black & white, ISBN 978-0-9840230-9-7.