Christopher Robin Nordström
In Sprawling, Christopher Robin Nordström presented Cicli Gabriel on the stage in the SSE atrium.
Featured work at SSE
Artwork: Cicli Gabriel
Location: Stage in the SSE atrium, Sveavägen 65
Exhibition: Sprawling, Handels x Mejan 2025
About the artwork
Cicli Gabriel moves in the borderland between reality and fiction, history and narrative, and the genuine and the forged. By weaving together parallel narratives, the work challenges ideas of authenticity, truth and value. What is really true—and does it even matter?
Artist statement
“My artistic practice revolves around reflecting, representing and, at times, reshaping realities—those that have existed and those that could have. History is my material and craftsmanship my language, where precision and care open doors to other times and possible courses of events.
Through meticulously executed replicas, I explore how our memories and shared cultural heritage are shaped, reinterpreted and sometimes lost. There is a quiet magic in the act of creation: a capacity to bring the past to life and give it a new presence in the present.
But no artwork exists in a vacuum. It is in the encounter between the piece and the viewer that meaning arises and deepens. The viewer’s own memories, associations and experiences intertwine with my work, and together we create a new reality. It is in this exchange—in the constant interplay between artist and viewer—that art becomes alive and gains its true power.”
— Christopher Robin Nordström
Related links
- Handels x Mejan 2025
- Previous Handels x Mejan editions
- Interview with Christopher Robin Nordström
- SSE Art Initiative
Portrait credit from the archived page: Christopher Robin Nordström. Photo: Björn Terring.