Christopher Robin Nordström

Cicli Gabriel by Christopher Robin Nordström. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger

Cicli Gabriel is a work that moves in the borderland between reality and fiction, between history and narrative, between the genuine and the forged. By weaving together parallel narratives, the piece challenges our notions of authenticity, truth, and value. What is really true – and does it even matter?

Christopher Robin Nordström 
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 kind of 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.