Jenny Magnusson’s site-specific sculpture explores internalisation of space, place, artefact and materiality. The materiality of the found object is brought to the foreground. For Magnusson form follows materials, not the other way around. The found material is not revised or altered but instead allowed to become part of a constellation, creating a surprising or humorous interplay between otherwise ordinary elements that might have been overlooked. Revisiting and reusing material, objects, and artefacts is a key part of her practice. Her archive acts as a material pool she dips in and out of. Construction and deconstruction.

She says: ‘For me, sculpture is an act of the making, the materiality is the place, and the act of borrowing is interactivity. An exhibition is an interruption in an oscillating movement in which works are created and dissolved. A temporary endpoint.’

The exchange between the space and the object extends towards the artist and the viewer as well. Magnusson’s own body becomes an instrument, relating the object to the space around it. Her sculptural work has a strong reference to performance. The choreography between performer and sculptures explores spatiality often in the present and the past.