Underskog

Opening Friday May 25th at 20:00
Open Saturday and Sunday 14:00-18:00


Simon Torssell Lerin/Bettina Hvidevold Hystad


Artist duo Simon Torssell Lerin/Bettina Hvidevold Hystad (1985), lives and works in Stockholm where they are currently doing a Master in Fine Art at Konstfack – University College of Arts, Crafts and Design.

For their show at Gallery Premiss, Simon and Bettina will present the first part in their ongoing project (DAMO) about the Japanese musician and traveller Damo Suzuki, most famous for being the vocalist in the German krautrock band CAN during the early 1970´s.

Part one is a cultural pilgrimage following the foot steps of Damo Suzuki´s time as a hitchhiker and traveller in Europe during the late 1960´s and early 1970´s. The journey takes us from a rock club in Osaka, to the small village Gräsmark in the Swedish forest, to a farm in Southern Ireland and finally together with Damo 40 years later back to Gräsmark again.

Artist duo Simon Torssell Lerin/Bettina Hvidevold Hystad has previously had solo exhibitions at Kyoto Art Center (Kyoto), Organhaus Art Space (Chongqing) and 943 Studio (Kunming), their work has been shown in group exhibitions at Casino Luxembourg (Luxembourg) La Casa Encendida (Madrid) Jin Ding Loft 1919 (Kunming) and Unge Kunstneres Samfund (Oslo) among others. This summer they will be “Artist in Residence” and have a solo exhibition at Haisyakkei in Tokyo.