• CV

• See past exhibitions “Lånt lys (Borrowed Light)“, “The Beginning of an End”

Characteristic of David Svensson's practice is that his works are based on existing objects - readymades -, and that the light always seems to be his focus - both light itself, the way light influences objects and what we see and the light that they themselves emit or transmit. The readymades David Svensson uses are elements from everyday life, and most often the history already embedded in the material becomes part of a new story.
It seems, that with his work, David Svensson is aiming to use minimal interference to obtain a maximum of impact on his viewers. Or, in the words of art historian, writer and curator Cecilie Høgsbro, “It is perhaps an attempt to recreate an art that is so general that it can be grasped and acquired by everyone but not definitively explained by anyone. It is not an art without meaning or idea. One is free to read whatever allegorical or political meaning into the work one chooses. The idea is not that we should think something specific, but that we should think for ourselves.”
(from Cecilie Høgsbro’s text Lower the Light published in connection to David Svensson’s exhibition Old World Rise Again at Brandts Kunsthal, DK)

See examples of available works from David Svensson