Miriam Johannesson

The installation Mystery of Matter and Magic of Presence is born from the shimmer of mother-of-pearl. It’s a deep shimmer that, like twilight, exists in between light and dark.

The installation has been staged through an orchestration of flows and materials where the works express the material’s state as well as the ephemeral qualities around it; they describe how the metal melts in a precise and defining moment and how the rippling waves of aluminium slowly move and glitter.

In my degree project, I examine concepts based on a philosophical context in relation to a material-based practice.

The undefined attribute of shimmer has been a key notion in exploring an in-between stage of displaced boundaries and fluid interfaces. I believe that borders mainly arise within us and that the world is vastly branched and intertwined beyond our comprehension.

Light and shadows, movement and stillness together create animated reflections and dissolving surfaces. Reflections and surfaces that can act as portals to sensual experiences of materiality and time. In a world that is brightly lit and at full speed, perhaps these soft, slow and shimmering portals have the power to heal.