OLIVIA PETTERSSON FLEUR
Born 1989
"Movement is the basis of my image-making. I want to capture different types of movement and things in motion. These things are tiny particles or waves, and each one has its own different temperament. A picture contains a multitude of elements and things. Before I start producing an image, I have a sense of what kind of movement and energy I want to capture. Then the hand usually begins to gesticulate the direction and the speed, and sometimes the movement is more oscillating. I sit or stand and draw in the air with my hands. A view begins to unfold in this air drawing, and directions or sequences of events are directed and drawn. Then it's a matter of quickly sketching what I've drawn in the air on a sheet of paper. Since my pictures (unlike my air drawings) have an ending, I have to choose what to depict with the drawing process. My sketches are a kind of proof of what I've just seen, and a method for remembering. Unlike the process that comes later (slow, arduous and static), the drawing and the gesticulating are extremely rapid and energising."
Master's degree 2018, Royal Institute of Art