LETTER TO MYSELF
Dear me,
There will never be enough time and space to create what you want to create.
Do it anyway.
Work hard.
Play but be serious with your ambitions.
Have fun.
Remember the importance of rest.
Remember the importance of loneliness.
It’s ok to do simple things.
It’s ok to do complex things.
Remember the body in the work.
Notice what moves you. Stay with the art, music, literature that affects you deeply.
Find comfort and inspiration in your friends.
Find comfort and inspiration in your idols.
Listen to Mary Oliver when she says: “Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
Listen to Simone Weil when she says: “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
Listen to Agnes Martin when she says: “Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.”
Love,
Yours truly
2020.30.07
Mathilda Frykberg (b. 1987, Värmland), is an artist based in Gothenburg, Sweden. She is educated in photography at HDK-Valand and works cross-disciplinarily with drawing, text, photography, and film. At the center of her practice are various stages for human life: Hemnet interiors, arranged dinner tables, Southern European facades in darkness, fictional tourist destinations, church spaces. The motifs return and repeat themselves over and over again. The scenes show traces of human life but appear empty, abandoned, and at times half-decayed. Through a repetitive depiction of narratives, memories, and mental images, fundamental existential questions about contemporary lifestyles, decay, and sustainability emerge. Over the past decade, Mathilda Frykberg has participated in numerous exhibitions, primarily in Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Värmland. She has worked editorially with the magazine ANTAL and has published around twenty self-produced zines.
Mathilda Frykberg 