"Alternative Readings" (letture alternative)

In the exhibition "Alternative Readings", Johansson continues to explore how our perception of the everyday objects we find ourselves surrounded with through simple methods can be shifted.

Apparent disparate objects gathered from different places and contexts are repackaged into coherent entities based on notions of colour and shape, in such a perfect fit they seem to be held together by some kind of invisible magnetism.

Parallel with the familiar there is something grueling and mysterious to be found in the work. When things are taken out of their natural context, their function becomes uncertain and turn into becoming something else, more impalpable and appealingly incomprehensible.

Over the years, Johansson has increasingly expanded and developed the approach to his material through various explorations as for example in the use of colour as a common denominator.

Reflections and doubles have now become a central theme.