From throwback pixelated video video games to science fiction-inspired pc consoles, Love Hultén’s playful sculptures (beforehand) harken again to the start of digital.
Based mostly in Gothenburg, Sweden, the artist’s explorations of video video games, digital music, and retrofuturist aesthetics proceed to form playful items like “R-KAID-R,” a cell online game full with a toggle, all of which might be carried like a briefcase.
One current work, “The Future Fan Stage” takes a humorous strategy to a fantastical fusion of dwell efficiency, science, and computer systems. Commissioned for Gothenburg’s Manner Out West, the display screen doubles as a totally useful stage that performed dwell recordings of the headliners “for what might be the largest yet smallest crowd in history: sperm and eggs getting ‘ready to rumble’ in a laboratory,” Hultén says.
The artist attracts on controversies surrounding in vitro fertilization (IVF) which have reached a fever pitch in the course of the previous few years. Taking an optimistic strategy to science and trendy medication, Hultén references research demonstrating that music might enhance fertilization in the course of the IVF course of.
Hultén’s work will likely be on view in Liljevalchs’ spring salon Vårsalong 2025, which opens on February 14 in Stockholm. Discover extra on the artist’s web site.
