THE SEEMINGLY STRONG
Åsa Polfjärd

8.-22.5.2025

Detroit Stockholm

”The Seemingly Strong” by Åsa Polfjärd explores the paradoxical nature of urban existence through concrete installations and printmaking. Her work examines the complex relationships between strength and fragility, connection and isolation.

The city landscape presents itself as a fortress of concrete, steel, and asphalt — monuments to human achievement and permanence. Yet beneath this veneer of solidity lies a profound vulnerability that reveals how easily these structures can be reclaimed by nature and time.

Similarly, Polfjärd investigates the human experience within these urban environments. We construct elaborate social architectures — communities, neighbourhoods — while simultaneously erecting invisible barriers that separate us from one another. Her work captures these contradictions: figures that appear to coexist in proximity yet remain isolated.

The abstraction in her printmaking serves as a visual language describing how we cluster together while maintaining our distance.

”The Seemingly Strong” ultimately questions our perception of permanence and invincibility. Through her printwork and concrete installations, she invites viewers to recognise the delicate equilibrium that sustains both our physical structures and our social bonds, and to consider how strength might be found not in impenetrability, but in acknowledging our fundamental fragility.

Utställningen arrangeras med stöd av Riksförbundet Sveriges Konstföreningar och Kulturrådet.

Opening:

TORSDAG 8 MAJ KL 18-22

Opening hours:

lör-sön 10-11 maj kl 12-16

Utställningen är öppen för tidsbokning 8-22 maj kl 10-18, boka via e-post till asa.grafik@gmail.com.

Address:

Detroit Stockholm

Roslagsgatan 21

11355 Stockholm

Contact:

Åsa Polfjärd

asa.grafik@gmail.com

Detroit Stockholm
mail@detroitstockholm.info