Nina Canell

Swedish artist Nina Canell (*1979 in Vaxjö, SE) explores the potential of hidden objects and materials meant for the usage of forwarding or saving knowledge and technological processes. Canell transforms sliced power- and fiber optic cables, unwound wire coils or exposed electrical wires into sculptural arrangements. Her interest in the contemporary advances of data transmission, the physical properties of data carriers themselves and their indiscernible internal processes is rooted in the questioning of memory and knowledge. Her conviction is that there is no mediation without loss, neither between solid objects nor living things. Her sculptural process reveals the hidden process of transmission, at the same time questioning the integrity of the object with synthetic and organic materials. Nina Canell exhibited in the Nordic Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. In 2019 the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen and the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden both showed solo exhibitions of the artist.