Klara Wikström Regan

Klara Wikström – her process starts with scenes from a doll’s house, arranged from her memories and impressions. In the painting’s room, realism negotiates with the fictional. The fictional takes place in the space between human imitations and depictions. By using real but inaccessible, diminished, plastic elements, such as dolls and miniature houses, she tries to immerse herself in the moods that arise in the revelation, the dizziness, the departed, the love, and death. She tries to paint as if she were in a state of dizziness, she sees it as a state between wakefulness and sleep. The puppets function as actors, in an environment that mimics that of humans. The doll is stiff and without feeling, created for man to be able to reflect himself in, fantasize about, and realize dreams with – in painting.