Elin Lindecrantz is a Swedish-born painter based in Barcelona since 2015. Using painted media to manifest observations in ordinary happenings, she regards light and space as the protagonists in her work. The artist has been a member of the local Tangent Projects independent art space and studio community since 2019, and in 2022 she was an artist-in-residence at PADA Studios outside Lisbon as part of their collaborative residency programme with Turps Banana painting magazine in London. “On Waiting and Living” was her first solo exhibition in Barcelona (September 2023) following multiple group shows such as Art Garage, Raima, Barcelona (2023), Moneymaking, Tangent Projects, Barcelona (2020), and The Final Bang, Estudio Nomada, Barcelona (2019). In October the same year, Lindecrantz was taking part in a one-month residency at Duplex Air in Lisbon. In March this year she will join a residency at Hangar in the same city.

“My main interest lies in spaces, light, colour and momentary details. Many times the small and the ordinary, that tend to be overlooked. In my work I investigate the theme of time, expressing it as an exploration of, as I see it, the ‘gaps’ or the small moments in between objects, shapes and physical spaces, but also in between life events and moments of waiting, anticipation, hope, longing and surprise. Many of my portraits centre on everyday domestic scenes, like the view from a window or a snapshot of a floor at a party. Focussing entirely on these daily glimpses, I capture reality in a way that alludes to multiple timeframes; the present is imbued with sentiments of the past, all the while transmitting an emotionality about existence and a commentary on the act of painting itself.”

Text by Javiera Luisina Cádiz Bedini