Galleri Duerr, SE

Light / Color

Light shapes human experience, from primitive fires to its paradoxical nature as both wave and particle. Artists Josefin Bravo and Jonathan Daily explore light through material and layers. Bravo’s work embodies strength and vulnerability, using glass to contrast raw metal forms. Influenced by punk’s rebellious edge, her pieces emphasize resilience and freedom, merging elegance with grit.

Her glass, both delicate and commanding, challenges boundaries to mirror the strength and physicality of her own body. In painting, light becomes a layered tool. Jonathan Daily applies paint in strata—sometimes hundreds of layers—to reveal depth over time. As light shifts, hidden brushstrokes reveal images, shifting between figuration and abstraction, like scenes unfolding in a film.

Embodiment / Agency / Space

Josefin envisions her creations as bodies that crawl around, searching for a placeto conquer, rest, or settle. In contrast, Jonathan conceptualizes his works as spacesthat invite the viewer to “crawl around in” the paintings with their eyes. While Josefine bestows agency upon the object, Jonathan grants this agency to the viewer.The movement begins, and the boundary between object and subject is obscured.

Capturing / Fixating / Time

The movement and crawling sensation described by both Jonathan and Josefin convey a sense of transformation or escape, capturing light and summoning color. Daily’s paintings often give the impression of figures moving across the canvas; sometimes they glide through the scene, while at other times they pulsate with dynamic energy, full of motion and vibrancy. Similarly, movement is present in Josefin’s work, where the fluidity of glass interacts with its surroundings. However, in her pieces, the sequence is reversed. The finished artwork is frozen in time, and to experience the movement, the viewer is taken back to the moment before it was fixed, just as the final form settles. Like the god Janus from Roman mythology, Jonathan and Josefin stand back to back against each other in the present, one gesturing towards the future and the other towards the past.