When Hades bursts with blooms Artwork

Lena works primarily with video, drawing, photography and performance. In recent years she has appeared in number of exhibitions and performance both in Sweden and abroad. Art, Society is changed by small measures, Lena Mattsson remarked in an interview. It is with this aspiration, that she approaches her performance and video installations, from the aggressively, sexually challenging, via a strong social engagement, to the subtly poetic. Initially a painter trained in a classic tradition, Mattsson still identifies with this profile, even in her video and sound art, where she tries to weave together life and art. In recent years, Mattsson has received particular attention for highlighting and questioning injustices, deficiencies, and discord in society. In her art, she has problemized and shown, in a clear and provocative manner, how these societal developments affect certain people. Mattsson actively participates in several of these works, which are fraught with strong identification with the affected persons as well as references to her own personal experiences. What is it we see and what is only an interpretation of what we see based on our social and cultural references and personal experience? There is always something unnerving about Lena Mattssons art. You think you know what you have seen but nevertheless you feel you have witnessed and experienced something else. She is a master in playing with our perceptions and senses. She takes us to a place and introduces us to what often seems a simple situation but which turns out to be something quite different.