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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN

Alvina Jakobsson is a ceramic artist from Stockholm, Sweden. Since graduating from the University of Arts, Crafts and Design `Konstfack ́in Stockholm 2017, Jakobsson has been based at her own studio in the southern Swedish city Malmö. Among her recent exhibitions she presented her work at the exhibition Materia in Brussels. Jakobsson has received several prestigious grants for her work, most recently an international travel scholarship from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee. Jakobsson builds monochrome pieces in clay. Movement and repetition are central parts to her artistic practice. Her work embodies a meditative practice of synchronized reiteration on a simple yet fluid form. Each monolith is comprised of dozens of curves, bends and folds, and yet there is a holistic simplicity that emerges out of the complexity.

“Clay has an ability to act light and passionate but is, in fact, heavy and calm - something that I use in my interpretation” – Alvina Jakobsson