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all images courtesy of the artist and The Power Station, Dallas / Texas
photos: KEVIN TODORA

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For KARL HOLMQVIST, quoting is a way to use words to create allusions and interconnections. His last exhibition entitled Tuff Love which is currently shown at The Power Station in Dallas is no exception. The presentation welcomes the visitor with RIHANNA’s lyrics ‘let me cover your shit in glitter‘ and a quote by artist SETH PRICE: Most artists didn’t know or understand their own motivations, even avoiding self-scrutiny for fear of scaring off inspiration.

In a recent interview, HOLMQVIST explained that he started to write by using other people’s words and thanks to an intuitive and improvised process, he selects things such as texts and forms that surround him on the moment. An additive process that creates an unstable sense of place and time; each manifestation of a work as the product of shifts that occurred then.

Tuff Love consists moreover of silver-coated walls and two sculptures entitled Tuff (2016) and Love (2016). The installation process of each sculpture was filmed entirely and is presented in the exhibition.

Tuff Love by KARL HOLMQVIST is on view at the Power Station in Dallas until June 17, 2017