I am happy to be a part of OPUS project pace spring group show. Opening is March 3 at 7:30, 526 W 26th Street #705, come by, I will be there showing new pieces from the Neverending Book.

During December 2015 and January 2016 I was a part of the exhibition ”Blomma,” a in house exhibition curated by Carolina Hindsjö, showing art by the staff at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. The exhibitions theme was flowers and the work I showed was a series I call ”Frön i världen” (Seeds in the World.)

Daniel Rydh and I have been working with our collage series ”Little Lights and Landmarks” and here is the latest work in the series. We are now taking off to the US, for some much needed vacation, inspiration and artistic practice!

Little Lights XL, Collage on paper, 137 x 126 cm

Daniel Rydh and I are happy to present new works in our series ”Little Lights and Landmarks.” We have now created our largest collage, 136 x 127 cm, and we sure hope there will be more in the future. We also have a small scale series ”Landmark Notes,” in the handy A4 format.

Soon it is time for us to go traveling; to New York and Spokane, Washington! First upcoming show will be at Saranac Art Projects, April 1st, Spokane, followed by New York in early May.

Little Lights, no 7, Collage on paper, 70 x 50 cm.

Little Lights, no 8 , Collage on paper, 70 x 50 cm.

Little Lights, no 5. Collage on paper, 70 x 50 cm.

Little Lights and Land Marks is collage series made by the artist duo Rydh / Sörenson. As an artist group we work with installation indoor and temporary installations outdoors. Our three-dimensional work inspired us to work on paper, exploring light, color and composition together. We titled them Little Lights and Land Marks inspired by our light installations and our temporary works in nature. All the works are watercolor on paper.

We are wishing you a Happy New Year by sharing some installation shots from our exhibition at Ten Weyngaert in Brussels, Belgium. We had a great year 2015 and looking forward to 2016: our residency and exhibition at Laboratory in Spokane, Washington,  a group show in New York with Opus Project Space and many more surprises. We hope to see you in 2016!

Dichroic Ripple, 2015.
Installation with fan, flashlights, water filled ovenware and dichroic glass.

Rydh/Sörenson are pleased to announce some new pieces;  Object of Desire, Transparent Solidarity, Dichroic Ripple and the ongoing project with Environmental Ephemerals. Have a look at our portfolio under the tab Rydh/Sörenson.

We are also happy to announce that we will be artists in residence at Bains Connective in Brussels in November, 2015, and will have an exhibition at  Ten Weyngaert the 27 and 28 of November in Brussels, Belgium.

In spring 2016 we will be artists in residence at Laboratory Spokane in Washington State, USA. We will exhibit there as well, date yet to be announced!

The iridescent pond, 2015. Study for environmental action.

I am happy to announce that I am in Opus Project Space group show opening October 1st!

Please come by the opening and have a look at the work, 6-8 pm.

I am happy to be a part of Lia Forslund’s final project in Critical Writing at Royal Collage of Art in London.  In her project we meet four quality controllers; their process, decision making and relationship to risk, all of them from four different countries with four different minds. Their stories became a body of research placing the discipline of Quality Control outside of its own realm. By combining portraits and critical analysis the reader is introduced to Quality Control in a somewhat different fashion, unveiling the previously untold story of the Controllers everyday.

In the exhibition the viewer will see four diagrams, each diagram is a portrait of a thought process. In the archival shelf one can find the tools to read and recreate the stories stepping into the frames of four different models of thinking. The drawings are made by me as interpretations, in collaboration with the primary research conducted by Lia Forslund.

The exhibition is open 25 June 2015 to 5 July 2015, 12–6pm daily.

Welcome the 19th of Decemeber! Ingrid Ogensedt and I will exhibit in Stockholm!

Welcome to Cigarrvägen 13 den 19de December!
Opening kl 5pm, open 20-21 Dec  kl 1-4 pm.

Anna Sörenson and Ingrid Ogenstedt work with concepts created by the composer and artist John Cage. Ogenstedt is based in Bremen, while Sörenson lives and works in Stockholm. When Sörenson visited Ogenstedt in Bremen, the two friends discovered they had been working in parallel with Cage’s concepts of art and originality, in pencil on paper.

Anna has been working with drawings based on John Cage’s “Fontana Mix.” “Fontana Mix” is four images: several dots, a grid, a line and something that looks like a topographic map. Cage introduced the images a model that one could use to interpret music with but also art and literature, by printing the images on a transparent sheet they can be placed on anything for a new interpretation. During an exhibition project in Brussels, Sörenson produced approximately 20 drawings with a copy machine, pencil and paper. The drawing became an alphabet of symbols that she used to construct the larger drawings.

Ingrid works with the concepts around Cage’s interest in the biological nature of mushrooms, how he has used foraged mushrooms and the mushrooms’ mycelium as a metaphor for how creativity works, patterns of though processing and how concepts evolve. Her older work has been shown in Bremen during the John Cage Day, where two projectors showed photo collages depicting various circle shapes, some of them “fairy rings,” where mushrooms grow in circles.

Together they have used their older work as common ground, and during a period of three months produce new work. The work is now presented in Stockholm at “Ciggarvägen Tretton” and has already been shown at “Immigration Office” in Bremen. This exhibition is a dialog between two artists, two friends and two cities.

”The Departments of Anna Sörenson”  
Vernissage fredag 14 november 2014 kl 17–22
Öppet fredag–söndag kl 13–16, tom. söndag 30 november.
Gotlandsgatan 76, Stockholm. Buss 3 och 76 till Gotlandsgatan eller tunnelbana till Skanstull.

Press release:

We believe in power. Everyday we face power structures and we view them as natural boundaries of reality. We realize that some of us have more power than others, that power is something a lucky few get to have temporarily but that power also can be captured. In any case we expect power to be tied to responsibility and duty, that power would naturally subordinate the human needs and sensibilities. But is it that really how power operates?

The main topic, as I see it, in Anna Sörenson’s conceptual art piece “The Departments” is power. Since 2012 has she staged her performance “Your Application is Pending” (in Stockholm, Brussels, Miami) where she invites the audience to take part and with their contribution they themselves lay the ground for the logic of the procedure and the following analysis. To exercise power needs a clear set of roles and therefore constitutes collaboration.

The advantage in staging the mechanism of power in the context of an art exhibition is that no one will be hurt. But Anna Sörenson’s work shreds light on how something that looks like a ordinary situation truly engage us in a power play, where every one who takes part is ordering themselves in the power structure, whether he or she wants it or not.

Come and get a taste of power at Candyland the 14th of November!

Jean Ploteau

Born and raised in Stockholm, Anna Sörenson received her BFA from Umeå University in Sweden. In 2012, Anna received her MFA from Pratt Institute supported by her Fulbright Scholarship. 2014 she graduated from a.pass, a yearlong post-master program in performance art in Brussels, Belgium.
She assembled her first solo exhibition in the fall of 2012, at Ed Varie in New York City and has exhibited her work in Stockholm, Brussels, Berlin, New York and Miami. She currently lives and works in Stockholm.