Lovisa Ringborg

Lovisa Ringborg (Linköping, Sweden, 1979) 'In this work, I was interested in the world as seen through the eyes of the child and the different games and characters being explored in order to structure that world. In the Chimera Carnival the child is facing reality by creating a private, magical sphere with its own rules, where the borders between humans, animals, dreams and reality are dissolved. In this space the child itself creates the norms and hierarchies, but by not being completely able to shut the actual reality out, the hopes and fears can take on any shape. It is an ambivalent place where good easily becomes bad and vice versa. An important inspiration for this series was portraits of children, mainly from the renaissance and from artists such as Velázquez and Lucas Cranach.'