Magnet
Winner of the Frac Bretagne-Art Norac Prize 2025, Elisa Florimond presents a solo exhibition at the Röda Sten Konsthall, Göteborg, Sweden.
Magnet is Elisa Florimond’s first international solo exhibition. The exhibition is the result of a collaboration between Röda Sten Konsthall and Frac Bretagne.
Florimond’s exhibition explores how museums shape, present and classify objects, with a particular focus on the archaeological and natural history collections that emerged during the 18th and early 19th centuries. Drawing on research conducted in various museums and archives, the artist incorporates motifs from, among others, the Gothenburg Natural History Museum.
In Magnet, archival material and facsimiles meet moving images, film stills and miniature sculptures made of soap. This interplay between different forms of expression and materials is also reflected in the exhibition furniture, which functions as artworks in their own right.
In Florimond’s practice, everything is an artwork, while at the same time nothing becomes an artwork without a given context; the exhibition. It´s within the exhibition where new relationships and meanings emerge in what the artist describes as an associative magnetic field – the Magnet.
Curated by Amila Puzić.
THE ARTIST
FRAC BRETAGNE – ART NORAC PRIZE
In 2020, Frac Bretagne and its patron Art Norac created the “Prix du Frac Bretagne – Art Norac” or Frac Bretagne-Art Norac Prize. The aim of this prize is to help emerging artists from the regional scene to gain international experience in order to encourage them to develop their careers outside our borders.
Each year, a partner structure in Europe or worldwide, willing to welcome an artist to produce a solo exhibition, is associated with the scheme.
+ Visit the Salzburger Kunstverein website
+ More information on the Prix du Frac Bretagne – Art Norac/ Frac Bretagne-Art Norac Prize
Image: Elisa Florimond, Numismatique, 2024 © Adagp, Paris. Photo: Robin-Bourgeois