With Capsule, Luxembourg Art Week takes over vacant spaces in the city center. Each activated space will remain visible from the street around the clock.
Jenny Johansson (b. 1982, lives and woks in Gothenburg) is a Swedish audiovisual artist who works interdisciplinary with collage, exploring material hierarchies and speculative historiography. Her process is characterized by DIY strategies and reflections on time, labor, myth, and reality. In her poetic compositions, Johansson seeks to juxtapose contrasting ideas, creating space for new understandings of identity and memory. She holds a bachelor's degree in Fine Art Photography from HDK-Valand (2020) and has completed university studies in philosophy and psychology.
Through DIY approaches, she examines industrial formats and mass production alongside material hierarchies, speculative historiography, and folk art. Her compositions merge craft and digital technologies, exploring narratives that blend humor with earnestness.
Since 2018, she has developed works known as technostones, derived from technofossil, which refers to the traces humans leave on Earth and in space. Like a stonemason or tattooist, she “sticks and pokes” images and text collages using a BBQ stick, creating inscriptions in insulation boards. This time-consuming relief craft, made from XPS cell plastic—often used in highway constructions, house foundations, and sports stadiums, with a durability of over 400 years—aims to foster reflection. The techno tones can be seen as contemporary runes, hunger stones, or massive oil paintings that bear witness to the temporalities of existence, where the present, past, and future coexist.
If you see me, weep.
2024
Technostone: XPS insulation boards, BBQ sticks, hand pooked inscriptions made with visitors and staff at Konsthallen Trollhättan
180x480x10 cm
Misery needs company
2024
Technostone: XPS insulation boards, BBQ sticks, hand pooked inscriptions made with visitors and staff at Konsthallen Trollhättan
240x120x10 cm
More info: www.jennyjohansson.com
