Instinctual

Jenny Kristina Nilsson is a Swedish artist who works primarily with sculpture, installation and video. Her work seeks to activate the viewer’s body through tactile senses such as touch, smell and movement in a space. She is interested in how we perceive art through our primary senses and how these experiences are stored in our bodies.
She has created immersive sculptures, large abstract forms suspended in the air, which continually change their appearance in space by choreographing the movement of the viewer’s body. Her performative videos stage primitive acts through camouflaged bodies. Recently, she has used biological materials to develop semi-transparent sculptures whose texture resembles burnt plastic and whose hue is reminiscent of skin, encouraging viewers to touch them.