One fig

Ingela Ihrman´s One Fig (2020) is screened on Lill-skärmen in the north corridor on the ground floor of Sveavägen 65, in relation to The Toad on the big screen and the Ingela Ihrman exhibition Nocturnal Games at Bonniers konsthall, opening March 11.

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4,29 min

Performance with fig costume (cotton, viscose, nylon, zip, metal net, white glue, paper, oil paint).

Someone in a purple fig costume divides itself in two halves as if a knife was cutting through the fruit. The cut exposes the fleshy interior of the fig. The halved fig leaves its other half behind and walks away. There is something both matter-of-fact and quietly devastating about it — the ease of the separation, and the solitude of the half that remains.

Ingela Ihrman was born in 1985, in Kalmar, Sweden. She graduated from Konstfack, Stockholm 2012. Ever since that, Ingela Ihrman has made plant and animal costumes for exhibitions and performances. Ingela is represented at for example Kiasma, Statens konstråd, Moderna museet and Malmö konstmuseum. In 2019 Ingela Ihrman represented Sweden at the Venice Biennal. On March 11 a big exhibition, Nocturnal Games, by Ihrman is opening at Bonniers konsthall.